Editing Falstaff (opera) (section)

==Roles==
[[File:Teatro Sociale di Trento. Sabato 30 giugno 1894 alle ore 9 pom. grande.jpg|thumb|"Falstaff" in a theatre playbill, preserved in the Municipal Library of Trento]]
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!Role
![[Voice type]]
!Premiere cast, 9 February 1893<ref>List of singers taken from Budden, vol. 3, p. 416.</ref><br />[[Conducting|Conductor]]: [[Edoardo Mascheroni]]<ref>Budden, vol. 3, p. 430</ref>
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|Sir John [[Falstaff]], ''a fat knight''
|[[bass-baritone]]
|[[Victor Maurel]]
|-
|Ford, ''a wealthy man''
|baritone
|[[Antonio Pini-Corsi]]
|-
|Alice Ford, ''his wife''
|[[soprano]]
|[[Emma Zilli]]
|-
|Nannetta, ''their daughter''
|soprano
|[[Adelina Stehle]]
|-
|Meg Page
|[[mezzo-soprano]]
|[[Virginia Guerrini]]
|-
|[[Mistress Quickly]]
|[[contralto]]
|[[Giuseppina Pasqua]]
|-
|Fenton, ''one of Nannetta's suitors''
|[[tenor]]
|[[Edoardo Garbin]]
|-
|Dr Caius
|tenor
|[[Giovanni Paroli]]
|-
|[[Bardolph (Shakespeare character)|Bardolfo]], ''a follower of Falstaff''
|tenor
|[[Paolo Pelagalli-Rossetti]]
|-
|[[Ancient Pistol|Pistola]], ''a follower of Falstaff''
|[[bass (voice type)|bass]]
|Vittorio Arimondi
|-
|Mine Host of the Garter Inn
|silent
|Attilio Pulcini
|-
|Robin, ''Falstaff's page''
|silent
|
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|colspan=3|Chorus of townspeople, Ford's servants, and masqueraders dressed as fairies etc.
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