Falstaff In Stock When I make my own

When I make my own records

and a process that concluded amid a radically changed world

Eric Valentine

Augustyn's expanding discography on major labels such as Naxos

came the genesis of the Dinner project

Falstaff In Stock When I make my ownFalstaff was composed to a libretto fashioned by Arrigo Boito largely from Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor. Superficially the work is an opera buffa in it's depiction of the travails of the penniless knight, Sir John Falstaff, but goes beyond the operatic tradition of the time. The vocal line is integrated into the orchestral texture, and with self quotations and parodic elements, the opera is saturated with as much irony as comedy,