In a cross between the Marx Brothers and Les Cages Aux Folles, the Washington Opera Company is staging Verdi's farce, Falstaff, at the Kennedy Center through the end of the month--perfect for Halloween with its goblins and witches and faeries.

Tim Smith, Baltimore Sun, has a review today that sums up the experience, including a description of the "Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo-style flock of male dancers in sylph-y ballerina outfits."  You had to be there and thanks to Goldstar.com, we were, at half-price.

What's remarkable is the imagination of director Christian Räth who took the co-produced Royal Opera sets and Verdi's opera and created something new. Charming.

(Photo by Karin Cooper, Kennedy Center / March 3, 2008, appearing in the Baltimore Sun, October 13, 2009.)

Originally posted @ Ann Oliveri