Strehler died in 1997. Now, near the start of a season packed with new productions, the Milan theatre has revived his 1980 staging of Falstaff, Verdi’s last opera and a crowning achievement of ...

I ask if Falstaff is as slippery to nail as McKellen feared he would be. “Worse,” he huffs. “He’s like something out of The Sopranos – a petty criminal, a Lord of Misrule, a man you ...