# Falstaff discography

This is a discography of Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff. It was first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 9 February 1893.

## Recordings

| Year | Falstaff Ford Fenton Alice Ford Nannetta Mistress Quickly | Conductor, Opera house and orchestra | Label |
| 1932 | Giacomo Rimini Emilio Ghirardini Roberto D'Alessio Pia Tassinari Ines Alfani-Tellini Aurora Buades | Lorenzo Molajoli Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus | CD: Naxos Records Cat: 8110198-99 |
| 1937 | Mariano Stabile Dino Borgioli Piero Biasini Alfredo Tedeschi Giuseppe Nessi Virgilio Lazzari Franca Somigli Augusta Oltrabella Mita Vasari Angelica Cravcenco | Arturo Toscanini Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Philharmoniker | CD: Bongiovanni Cat: GB 1137/38-2 CD: Arkadia Records Cat: HP 625.2 |
| 1950 | Giuseppe Valdengo Frank Guarrera Antonio Madasi Herva Nelli Teresa Stich-Randall Cloe Elmo | Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony Orchestra Robert Shaw Chorale (recorded at Carnegie Hall) | CD: RCA Cat: B00004R8ME |
| 1956 | Tito Gobbi Rolando Panerai Luigi Alva Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Anna Moffo Fedora Barbieri | Herbert von Karajan Philharmonia Orchestra Philharmonia Chorus | CD: EMI Classics Cat: CDM 5 67083 2 |
| 1963 | Geraint Evans Robert Merrill Alfredo Kraus Ilva Ligabue Mirella Freni Giulietta Simionato | Georg Solti Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra & chorus | CD: Decca Cat: B000787WWE |
| 1966 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Rolando Panerai Juan Oncina Ilva Ligabue Graziella Sciutti Regina Resnik | Leonard Bernstein Vienna Philharmonic Vienna State Opera chorus | CD: CBS Masterworks Cat: 01-042535-10 |
| 1976 | Donald Gramm Benjamin Luxon Max-René Cosotti Kay Griffel Elizabeth Gale Nucci Condò | Sir John Pritchard London Philharmonic Orchestra Glyndebourne chorus (recorded at Glyndebourne Festival) | DVD/VHS: Arthaus Musik Cat: 101 083 |
| 1980 | Giuseppe Taddei Rolando Panerai Francisco Araiza Raina Kabaivanska Janet Perry Christa Ludwig | Herbert von Karajan Vienna Philharmonic Vienna State Opera chorus | CD: Philips Cat: B00000E2SL |
| 1982 | Renato Bruson Leo Nucci Dalmacio Gonzalez Katia Ricciarelli Barbara Hendricks Lucia Valentini Terrani | Carlo Maria Giulini Los Angeles Philharmonic Los Angeles Master chorale | CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: B000001G4L |
| 1991 | Rolando Panerai Alan Titus Frank Lopardo Sharon Sweet Julie Kaufmann Marilyn Horne | Colin Davis Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & chorus | CD: RCA Victor Cat: 09026 60705-2 |
| 1996 | Domenico Trimarchi Roberto Servile Maurizio Comencini Julia Faulkner Dilber Yunus Anna Maria di Micco | Will Humburg Hungarian State Opera orchestra & chorus | CD: Naxos Cat: 8660050–1 |
| 1998 | Jean-Philippe Lafont Anthony Michaels-Moore Antonello Palombi Hillevi Martinpelto Rebecca Evans Sara Mingardo | Sir John Eliot Gardiner Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Monteverdi Choir | CD: Phillips Cat: 462 603-2 |
| 2001 | Andrew Shore Ashley Holland Barry Banks Yvonne Kenny Susan Gritton Rebecca de Pont Davies | Paul Daniel English National Opera orchestra & chorus (sung in English) | CD: Chandos Cat:Chandos 3079 |
| | Bryn Terfel Thomas Hampson Danil Shtoda Adrianne Pieczonka Dorothea Röschmann Larissa Diadkova | Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic Berliner Rundfunkchor | CD: DGG Cat: 289 471 194-2 |
| 2004 | Michele Pertusi Carlos Álvarez Bülent Bezdüz Ana Ibarra Maria Josè Moreno Jane Henschel | Colin Davis London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Chorus | CD: LSO Live Cat:LSO0055 |
| 2009 | Christopher Purves Tassis Christoyannis Bülent Bezdüz Dina Kuznetsova Adriana Kučerová Marie-Nicole Lemieux | Vladimir Jurowski London Philharmonic Orchestra Glyndebourne chorus (recorded at Glyndebourne Festival) | DVD: Opus Arte Cat: OA 1021 D |
| 2020 | Roberto De Candia, Simone Piazzola, Joel Prieto, Rebecca Evans, Ruth Iniesta, Daniela Barcellona | Daniele Rustioni Orchestra and chorus of Teatro Real Laurent Pelly, stage director | DVD: Bel Air Classiques Cat:BAC177 |
The "Operadis" discography lists more than seventy other recordings, made at live performances. They include those conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham at the Metropolitan Opera in 1944 with Leonard Warren in the title role; Fritz Reiner with Warren at the Met (1948); Victor de Sabata with Mariano Stabile at La Scala (1951); Karajan and Gobbi at the Salzburg Festival (1957); Tullio Serafin with Gobbi at the Chicago Lyric Opera (1958); Lorin Maazel and Walter Berry at the Vienna State Opera (1983); James Levine and Paul Plishka at the Met (1992); Riccardo Muti and Juan Pons at La Scala (1993); Solti and José van Dam in Berlin (1993); and Zubin Mehta and Ruggero Raimondi at the Teatro Comunale, Florence (2006).
In October 1978 Solti conducted the soundtrack for Götz Friedrich's 1979 film of Falstaff. The recording, made by Decca in the Sofiensaal. Vienna, with the Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, featured Gabriel Bacquier as Falstaff, Richard Stilwell as Ford, Max-René Cosotti as Fenton, Karan Armstrong as Alice Ford, Jutta-Renate Ihloff as Nanetta and Márta Szirmay as Mistress Quickly.