title: Barbara Frittoli
Sara Mingardo
Titta Ruffo
Mark Ringer
Carlos Álvarez (baritone)
Gianluca Floris
Antonio Salieri
Anthony Michaels-Moore
Adelina Stehle
Falstaff (Salieri)
sentences: Barbara Frittoli (born 19 April 1967) is an Italian operatic soprano who has sung leading roles in opera houses throughout Europe and in the United States.
 She was born in Milan and graduated from the Milan Conservatory.
 She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1995 as Micaela in "Carmen" and has gone on to sing in over 80 performances there including Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni", Fiordiligi in "Così fan tutte", Angelica in "Suor Angelica", Desdemona in "Otello", the title role in "Luisa Miller", Amelia in "Simon Boccanegra", Vitellia in "La clemenza di Tito" and Alicia Ford in "Falstaff".
Sara Mingardo (born 2 March 1961) is an Italian classical contralto who has had an active international career in concerts and operas since the 1980s.
 Her complete recording of Anna in Hector Berlioz's "Les Troyens" won a Gramophone Award and both the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the Grammy Award for Best Classical Album in 2002.
 Some of the other roles she has performed on stage or on disc include Andronico in "Tamerlano", Mistress Quickly in "Falstaff", Rosina in "The Barber of Seville", and the title roles in "Carmen", "Giulio Cesare", "Riccardo Primo", and "Rinaldo".
 She has also recorded several Vivaldi cantatas, Bach cantatas, and such concert works as Mozart's "Requiem", Rossini's "Stabat Mater", and Vivaldi's "Gloria" among others.
Titta Ruffo (9 June 1877 - 5 July 1953), born as Ruffo Titta Cafiero, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career.
 Known as the "Voce del leone" ("voice of the lion"), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle" (although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "...which he [Ruffo] bawled away..."), and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff.
 Maurel said that the notes of Ruffo's upper register were the most glorious baritone sounds he had ever heard (see Pleasants, cited below).
 Indeed Walter Legge, the prominent classical record producer, went so far as to call Ruffo "a genius".
Mark Ringer (born December 8, 1959) American writer, theater and opera historian, director and actor.
 Ringer’s books include "Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles", a critical analysis of theatrical self-awareness in the seven Sophoclean tragedies, "Opera's First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi", which Alan Rich of the LA Weekly described as "an uncommonly well-told accounting of Monteverdi's operatic legacy", and "Franz Schubert's Theatre of Song".
 Ringer's work as a director has concentrated on classical plays such as "The Alchemist" and "The Puritan" for R. Thad Taylor's Globe Playhouse and "Hamlet" with Jon Mullich in the title role.
 Ringer is married to director Barbara Bosch, for whom he played Falstaff in his own adaptation of the two parts of William Shakespeare's "Henry IV" as well as Polonius and the Gravedigger in "The Heart of My Mystery: The Hamlet Project".
 His performances for other directors include Malvolio in "Twelfth Night," Zeus in "Iliad," Nick Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and Baptista in "Taming of the Shrew".
 Ringer is a Professor of Theatre Arts and holds the title of Distinguished Chair at Marymount Manhattan College.
Carlos Álvarez (born 1966 in Málaga) is a Spanish baritone who has had a major international opera career since the early 1990s.
 His recording of the title role in Isaac Albéniz's "Merlin" with Plácido Domingo as King Arthur won a Latin Grammy Award in 2001, and his recording of the role of Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff" won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2006.
Gianluca Floris (born 1964 in Cagliari) is an Italian writer and "belcanto" singer.
 He has featured in several recordings for Naxos Records, including playing the role of Bardolfo in a recording of "Falstaff" made at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence in 2006.
Antonio Salieri (] ; 18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher.
 He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg Monarchy.
Anthony Michaels-Moore (born 8 April 1957) is an English operatic baritone and the first British winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition (Philadelphia, 1985) Anthony has since performed in many of the world's major opera houses across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
 He has distinguished himself as a specialist in Verdi and Puccini roles, most renowned for his portrayals of Falstaff, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Iago in "Otello", Germont in "La traviata", Sharpless in "Madama Butterfly", and Scarpia in "Tosca".
 In addition to the standard repertoire, he has sung and recorded the baritone roles of some of the less-known 19th Century Italian operas.
Adelina Stehle (born Graz, 30 June 1860 – died Milan, 24 December 1945) was an Austrian-born operatic soprano, associated almost entirely with the Italian repertory.
 She studied singing in Milan and debuted as Amina in 1881 in Broni in Lombardy.
 Her career eventually brought her to La Scala in 1890 where she flourished.
 She took part in a series of important premieres in the 1890s.
 In 1893 she was the first Nannetta in Verdi's "Falstaff" to the Fenton of her husband, Edoardo Garbin, and they were later important in the popularization of Puccini's "La bohème".
Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle ("Falstaff, or The Three Jokes") is a "dramma giocoso" in two acts by Antonio Salieri, set to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi after William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor".

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 Sara Mingardo (born 2 March 1961) is an Italian classical contralto who has had an active international career in concerts and operas since the 1980s.
 Her complete recording of Anna in Hector Berlioz's "Les Troyens" won a Gramophone Award and both the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the Grammy Award for Best Classical Album in 2002.
 Some of the other roles she has performed on stage or on disc include Andronico in "Tamerlano", Mistress Quickly in "Falstaff", Rosina in "The Barber of Seville", and the title roles in "Carmen", "Giulio Cesare", "Riccardo Primo", and "Rinaldo".
 She has also recorded several Vivaldi cantatas, Bach cantatas, and such concert works as Mozart's "Requiem", Rossini's "Stabat Mater", and Vivaldi's "Gloria" among others. 

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 Titta Ruffo (9 June 1877 - 5 July 1953), born as Ruffo Titta Cafiero, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career.
 Known as the "Voce del leone" ("voice of the lion"), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle" (although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "...which he [Ruffo] bawled away..."), and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff.
 Maurel said that the notes of Ruffo's upper register were the most glorious baritone sounds he had ever heard (see Pleasants, cited below).
 Indeed Walter Legge, the prominent classical record producer, went so far as to call Ruffo "a genius". 

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 Carlos Álvarez (born 1966 in Málaga) is a Spanish baritone who has had a major international opera career since the early 1990s.
 His recording of the title role in Isaac Albéniz's "Merlin" with Plácido Domingo as King Arthur won a Latin Grammy Award in 2001, and his recording of the role of Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff" won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2006. 

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 Gianluca Floris (born 1964 in Cagliari) is an Italian writer and "belcanto" singer.
 He has featured in several recordings for Naxos Records, including playing the role of Bardolfo in a recording of "Falstaff" made at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence in 2006. 

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 Antonio Salieri (] ; 18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher.
 He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg Monarchy. 

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 Anthony Michaels-Moore (born 8 April 1957) is an English operatic baritone and the first British winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition (Philadelphia, 1985) Anthony has since performed in many of the world's major opera houses across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
 He has distinguished himself as a specialist in Verdi and Puccini roles, most renowned for his portrayals of Falstaff, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Iago in "Otello", Germont in "La traviata", Sharpless in "Madama Butterfly", and Scarpia in "Tosca".
 In addition to the standard repertoire, he has sung and recorded the baritone roles of some of the less-known 19th Century Italian operas. 

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 Adelina Stehle (born Graz, 30 June 1860 – died Milan, 24 December 1945) was an Austrian-born operatic soprano, associated almost entirely with the Italian repertory.
 She studied singing in Milan and debuted as Amina in 1881 in Broni in Lombardy.
 Her career eventually brought her to La Scala in 1890 where she flourished.
 She took part in a series of important premieres in the 1890s.
 In 1893 she was the first Nannetta in Verdi's "Falstaff" to the Fenton of her husband, Edoardo Garbin, and they were later important in the popularization of Puccini's "La bohème". 

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 Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle ("Falstaff, or The Three Jokes") is a "dramma giocoso" in two acts by Antonio Salieri, set to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi after William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor". 

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Answer: Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice