Falstaff is Verdi's masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behavior of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the Windsor's. In this performance stage and film director Mario Martone updates the action to the present day and shows Falstaff as ageing rebel in dodgy sideburns and leather jacket. Among the Inchexquisit vocal castInch (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Michael Volle gives his debut in the title role Inchwith masterly dynamic shadingsInch (Financial Times) and Inchas if he had been preparing for this role for a lifetime.Inch (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) while InchDaniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin are tickling out all the wit and all the momentum from this score.Inch (Online Merker)