Falstaff (opera) to think of "Falstaff" as a work that has a certain Englishness. In fact the opera is no more English than "Aida" is Egyptian. Boito and Verdi between them transformed the fat knight into one of the archetypes of "opera buffa"." Verdi himself, however, felt that the Falstaff of the opera is not a conventional Italian "buffo" character, but portrays Shakespeare's fuller, more ambiguous Falstaff of the "Henry IV" plays: "My Falstaff is not merely the hero of "The Merry Wives of Windsor", who is simply a buffoon, and allows himself to be tricked by the women, but also the
Felix Knight Arwater Kent Foundation Scholarship Auditions of the Air, and made it to Manhattan prior to placing second in the judging. Upon returning to California, Knight sang at the Hollywood Bowl in the Giuseppe Verdi opera "La traviata" alongside Lily Pons, and then traveled to San Francisco, California, where he did Hector Berlioz's "La damnation de Faust" with the city's opera company. Once he returned to Hollywood, he continued voice studying and radio work, including the CBS program "Shell Mountain House" with Raymond Paige and his Orchestra. Knight finally made his screen debut in 1934 in RKO Pictures "Down to Their