Name: Sihan Ma, Collaborative Piano
Start: 2026-04-27T15:00:00
Location: The Juilliard School

Sihan Ma

The Juilliard School

Marcus Shields directs a stellar cast of Juilliard opera students in Giuseppe Verdi’s raucous comic capstone, reimagined in swinging 1970s Britain. Based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, the opera follows the buffoonish and rotund knight Falstaff attempting to get rich through the seduction of multiple married women. What could go wrong? Don’t miss this chance to laugh at and with Shakespeare’s loveable rogue.

Juilliard Opera Presents Verdi’s "Falstaff"

François Servais was a pioneering cellist, a European star, and one of the founding figures of the Belgian cello school. He performed with Mendelssohn, Rossini, and Vieuxtemps, and he was admired by Schumann, Meyerbeer, and Berlioz. A century and a half after his death, his virtuosic cello compositions still resonate around the world, and his six etudes are a compulsory work at the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Cello.