File:Ettore Tito -The Production of Verdi's Falstaff at Milan - Falstaff Concealed in the Buck-Basket in Ford's House.jpg
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English: "The Production of Verdi's Falstaff at Milan: Falstaff Concealed in the Buck-Basket in Ford's House" from The Graphic of February 18, 1893 as performed in the première production. (The première was on 9 February 1893, but The Graphic is a weekly, and it takes more than two days to get illustrations from Italy to England and prepare engravings.)
This engraving shows the climax of the chaotic scene near the end of Act II of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff: The "merry wives of Widsor", who have discovered Falstaff sent two of them the same scandalous love note, differing only in the name it is addressed to, have decided to punish him. Unfortunately, the fake arrival of Alice Ford's husband ends up replaced by the real arrival. While he and the servants search the house top to bottom, the women stifle Falstaff in a basket of laundry. Meanwhile, Nannetta Ford, Alice's daughter, and her suitor, Fenton, arrive during a moment of calm, and slip behind a screen for some kissing and other such romance. Ford, returning on the search for his wife, hears the noises behind the screen, and presumes his wife is there - but it turns out to be Fenton with his daughter - which he sees as almost as bad. Nonetheless, the act ends with Ford and Alice reconciled as she reveals her plan to him, and invites him to watch Falstaff thrown into the river with the laundry. The Nannetta-Fenton plot, however, will have to wait until the next act to be resolved. |
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18 February 1893 date QS:P571,+1893-02-18T00:00:00Z/11 |
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Barring changes to copyright law, this image will enter public domain in the UK and Italy after 1 January 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: This image is not done being retouched at present, but is uploaded so that people may begin seeing the work being done. Changes so far: Partial fix of bleed-through and ink splatter..
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The author died in 1941, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. | |
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Original upload log
- 2010-06-23 16:16 Adam Cuerden 7328×5660× (25872088 bytes) More work, mainly on upper left
- 2010-03-24 07:09 Adam Cuerden 7328×5660× (25126994 bytes) Update
- 2009-07-26 19:34 Shoemaker's Holiday 7328×5660× (25468417 bytes) More fixes
- 2009-07-23 08:09 Adam Cuerden 7328×5660× (25498507 bytes) More fixes.
- 2009-07-21 19:29 Adam Cuerden 7328×5660× (25519090 bytes)
- 2009-07-19 21:35 Adam Cuerden 7328×5660× (25590809 bytes) Update partial restoration
- 2009-05-17 02:32 Adam Cuerden 7704×5863× (25512017 bytes)
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