Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’

Carmen Giannattasio as Alice Ford and Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff in Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Carmen Giannattasio, left, as Alice Ford; Juan Francisco Gatell as Fenton and Ekaterina Sadovnikova as Nannetta in Verdi’s “Falstaff.”  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Ekaterina Sadovnikova as Nannetta with the cast in Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Marco Caria, right, as Ford and Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff in Verdi’s “Falstaff,” with James Conlon conducting.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Erica Brookhyser as Meg Page, left, Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff and Ronnita Nicole Miller as Mistress Quickly in Verdi’s “Falstaff.”  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff and Ronnita Nicole Miller as Mistress Quickly.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Carmen Giannattasio, left, as Alice Ford; Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff and Erica Brookhyser as Meg Page in Verdi’s “Falstaff.”  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Ronnita Nicole Miller, left, as Mistress Quickly; Erica Brookhyser as Meg Page, Carmen Giannattasio as Alice Ford and Ekaterina Sadovnikova as Nannetta in Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff, the title role of Verdi’s opera.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Juan Francisco Gatell, left, as Fenton and Ekaterina Sadovnikova (with Gatell) as Nannetta with the cast in Verdi’s “Falstaff.”  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Marco Caria, left, as Ford and Roberto Frontali as Sir John Falstaff in Verdi’s “Falstaff.”  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)