I don’t know how it is in the UK these days, but in France telemarketing remains part and parcel of everyday life. There’s a government-sponsored service that’s supposed to cut them off, but it requires you to enter the caller’s numbers onto an online list, which is both time-consuming and usually impossible.
Verdi’s Falstaff at the Met delivers the lulz
Is Falstaff a casual, end of career “farewell tour” simply to prove the critics who claimed Verdi could not write comedy wrong? Far from it.
