Performances
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Great Operas for Children
Falstaff: burattini e burle
23 December 2025
| 50 minuti | |
AsLiCo New Production
Based on Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi |
| Staging | NADIA MILANI |
|---|---|
| Mask making | FEDERICO MENEGHEL |
| Painted works | PERNILLA BERTAGNI, FRANCESCA ABBIATI |
| Sets and costumes | CANTIERI DEL TEATRO - COMO |
| Sir. John Falstaff, Ford | DAVIDE CANEPA |
| Bardolfo, Pistola, Mrs Alice Ford, Mrs Quickly | ARIANNA TALAMONA |
| Piano | HINAKO KOSAKA |
In brief
Falstaff is an old, roguish puppeteer who, short of money, devises schemes and intrigues to survive. His puppets and marionettes, together with boys and girls, laugh and have fun at his clumsy tricks, then help him set things right again. We thus enter a timeless world, populated by masks, puppets and marionettes, evoking photographs from the past with the vividness of the present. A world in which everything is a prank!
The adaptation adopts a “theatre within the theatre” structure to enhance the Shakespearean dramatic source and the role of the authors, drawing on the canons of commedia dell’arte and the art of puppetry. The themes highlighted include play and mischief, as well as awareness and self-determination, especially for the female characters.
The adaptation adopts a “theatre within the theatre” structure to enhance the Shakespearean dramatic source and the role of the authors, drawing on the canons of commedia dell’arte and the art of puppetry. The themes highlighted include play and mischief, as well as awareness and self-determination, especially for the female characters.