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  • Review: The Met's Falstaff Revival Is Fantastically Funny

    7 days ago - By Observer

    Robert Carsen's Falstaff, which premiered in 2013 and returned to the Met on March 12, is simply delightful. It's stylish, thought-provoking, and very, very funny-particularly in its use of background actors and the chorus, who populate the restaurant, clubs, kitchens and hotel rooms that comprise Carsen's 1950s-era setting. While they do give the singing characters plenty of energy to play with, the chorus and supernumeraries are often comedic engines themselves. In Act II, the growing number of fedora-ed men who appear in Ford's kitchen to find Sir John is proportional to the growing...
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