
Falstaff
13 July – 24 August
Performance Dates
Another comedy on stage this summer
Mozart’s sexiest and sharpest opera brims with beauty, mischief and wisdom.
The Count has his eye on Susanna. Can she outwit him and marry her beloved Figaro? And will the Countess ever win back her husband’s love? Mozart’s comic masterpiece returns to Glyndebourne in a brand-new staging by Mariame Clément.
Falstaff
This madcap comedy is all breathless energy and big-hearted belly laughs.
Falstaff bites off more than he can chew when he messes with the merry wives of Windsor. Set in 1940s post-war England, this Shakespeare-meets-Ealing-comedy production combines humour with music that bursts with energy.
Renato Girolami, last seen at Glyndebourne as Dr Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore (Festival 2023), plays Falstaff, with Anna Princeva making her Glyndebourne debut as Alice Ford. They are joined by Rodion Pogossov who is playing Ford, and Mariam Battistelli playing Nannetta, both returning to Glyndebourne favourites.
Sian Edwards makes a very welcome return to Glyndebourne to conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
See full cast and creative team details here.
Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Performance timings
Timings are subject to change.
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18, 23, 26, 29 JULY
1 AUGUST
Gardens open: 3.00pm
Opera starts: 5.00pm
Interval (90 mins)*: 6.30pm
Opera resumes: 8.00pm
Opera ends: 8.50pm
13 JULY
7, 11, 15, 19, 22, 24 AUGUST
Gardens open: 2.00pm
Opera starts: 4.00pm
Interval (90 mins)*: 5.30pm
Opera resumes: 7.00pm
Opera ends: 7.50pm
Photos
Photos: Alastair Muir
Cast & Creative
Creative team
Conductor
Sian Edwards
Director
Richard Jones
Designer
Ultz
Original Movement Director
Linda Dobell
Movement Director
Lucy Burge
Lighting Designer
Mimi Jordan Sherin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Cast includes
Dr Caius
Gregory Bonfatti
Sir John Falstaff
Renato Girolami
Bardolfo
Colin Judson
Pistola
Callum Thorpe
Meg Page
Stephanie Lauricella
Alice Ford
Anna Princeva
Mistress Quickly
Valentina Pernozzoli
Nannetta
Mariam Battistelli
Fenton
Filipe Manu
Egor Zhuravskii 22, 24 August
Ford
Rodion Pogossov
Performers
Richard Dyball, Vigee Harding, Charles Kerry, Suzy King
Children
Page: Kitt Parker
Lexi Blundell, Ailsa Bond Vannuffel, Samson Clarke, Jonti Hudson, Emily-Rose Langridge, Taylor Lucas, Gabriel Rous, Hana-Ines Slater, Hugo Verbeek, Margot Verbeek
Get a feel for Falstaff with this clip of ‘Del tuo barbaro diagnostico’ captured live at Festival 2009.
Supported by
The Holley Family Trust
Ms Lisa Macedo and Mr Nicholas Bacon
To find out more about production support for Festival 2025 click here
or contact our Director of Development, Helen McCarthy for an informal chat:
call 01273 013308 or email helen.mccarthy@glyndebourne.com.
Main image: © Getty Images/Thinkstock/Image treatment by Melissa Castro Duarte