Falstaff: Royal Opera House (Haitink) DVD (2002) Graham Vick, Burton (DIR) cert Title: Falstaff: Royal Opera House (Haitink) Leading Actor: Graham Vick Region: Region 0 Duration: 171 mins Format: DVD / Normal Type: DVD No. of Discs: 1 disc(s) Studio / Publisher: Naxos Music UK Ltd. UK Release Date: 02 Sep 2002 Edition: Normal Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel takes the title role in this production of Verdi's last opera, based on Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and 'Henry IV'. The fun-loving Falstaff has his eye on two married women and writes a love letter to each of them. The two women compare letters and decide the writer must be punished for his roguish ways, drawing up a plot which will see him hiding from angry husbands in a basket, getting thrown into the Thames, and dressing up in a pair of antlers for a secret midnight tryst in the middle of the forest. Please note this DVD is region 2 and will only work in the following regions Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East (including Egypt) and Greenland, Unless you have a multi-regional DVD Player.