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Ambrogio Maestri has the title role and Stephanie Blythe plays Mrs. Quickly in Verdi’s ‘Falstaff.’ A lovable knight is having a new day. Starting Friday, Verdi’s comic masterpiece, “Falstaff,” gets its first Metropolitan Opera production since 1964, with James Levine wielding the baton and rubber-faced Ambrogio Maestri in the blustery title role. Toronto-born director Robert Carsen’s vision of the 1893 ...

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