Falstaff, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House, London: Robert Carsen's new staging of Verdi's farewell comedy is a co-production with La Scala and the Canadian Opera Company. The setting is the 1950s, with Falstaff residing in a heavily oak-panelled, upmarket hotel, and Alice Ford's kitchen the last word in stylish period design. Up to the interval, Paul Steinberg's sets supply visual magic aplenty; ironically, there's …