![]() ![]() In the opera’s delightful final scene in Windsor Park, costumed in white as the fairy queen, she presided with radiant vocal beauty over the torment of Falstaff by the crowd of masked townspeople.Īnn McMahon Quintero’s mezzo-soprano vanished a bit in the lowest range, but she made a sharp-tongued Mistress Quickly. The young soprano’s transparent high notes melted the heart in the fugitive love vignettes, moments snatched with her lover, Fenton. Mezzo-soprano Megan Marino, a former apprentice singer, made a steady foil to her as Meg Page.Īmong the women, however, Elena Villalón carried the night, in a sublime Santa Fe debut as Nannetta. Her top notes sailed over the largest ensembles, floating some extraordinary pyrotechnics, while handling the comic turns of the story with aplomb. In a powerhouse company debut, soprano Alexandra LoBianco led a fine quartet of merry wives as Alice Ford, engineering Falstaff’s extravagant humiliation. ![]() From the moment he was rolled onto the stage in a large bed, out of which tumbled his henchmen, his page, and a wench, he dominated the platform in his voluminous fat suit. The Hawaiian-born baritone blustered with remarkable volume, easily overpowering his colleagues with vocal rodomontade. Quinn Kelsey brought all the necessary strengths to Falstaff, the fat knight down on his luck who tries to seduce two respectable wives at the same time. It was the first staging of the composer’s final comic masterpiece at Santa Fe since 2008. ![]() ![]() On Thursday night, it was Verdi’s Falstaff, in a charming new staging directed by Scottish director David McVicar in his Santa Fe Opera debut, a co-production with Scottish Opera. The most complex works on the stage this summer at Santa Fe Opera came at the end of the first full week of all five shows running in repertory. Quinn Kelsey stars in the title role of Verdi’s Falstaff at Santa Fe Opera. ![]()
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