Shakespeare Sings

While Salieri and Defranceschi were early adaptors of Shakespeare’s plays into operas, the Bard’s works were frequently adapted for the opera stage in the 19th century and continue to be a source of inspiration for opera writers to this day. The Merry Wives of Windsor alone spawned at least three additional operatic adaptations including Otto Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (1842), Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sir John in Love (1929) and the...