Mariano Stabile was an Italian baritone, one of the great singing actors of early twentieth-century Italian opera. He was especially famous as Verdi’s Falstaff.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Rossini and Verdi, including Callas’s Il turco in Italia and Toscanini’s 1937 Salzburg Falstaff.

Stabile’s singing combined verbal brilliance, stage intelligence and an extraordinary command of comic and character detail.

His page is essential for the Italian opera strand. Stabile gives Falstaff wit, belly, brain and perfectly timed theatrical eyebrows.