Instead, he is getting a bottle of Bordeaux. He sells off good old Nemorino, making him believe that he is getting the prized Elixir of Love. Dulcamara is a charlatan from the beginning of the opera and he is able to fool the townspeople with his famous concoctions. Unbeknownst to him and Caius, the women have also planned a manner to marry off Nannetta to the love of her life Caius ends up marrying Bardolfo.ĭr. Good old Ford has tried to marry off his daughter to Dr. After much physical torment, the joke implodes when Bardolfo speaks out of turn and the Sir recognizes his traitorous friend.īut Falstaff isn’t the only one who gets fooled. Suddenly he finds himself surrounded by mystical creatures that have decided to punish him for his sins. Falstaff arrives in the lonely woods after falling in the river. So the women of Windsor spend two hours making him fall into one trap after another.īut the cruelest joke comes in the third act of the opera.

But what he doesn’t realize is how grotesque he is.

Good old Sir John Falstaff thinks that he can get any woman he wants, his appetite for sex insatiable. Malatesta teaching him that he should never try and buy himself a wife. Fortunately, he eventually finds out that it was all one cruel joke as Sofronia is none other than Norina, his nephew’s girlfriend, in league with Dr. But everything goes to hell when the innocent Sofronia starts destroying his world, spending his money and insulting him. Good old Don Pasquale thinks life is great! He is rich, is finally getting rid of that good for nothing nephew of his and has just married a beautiful provincial girl named Sofronia. Opera’s greatest works are filled with characters playing massive pranks on one another, to the audience’s perpetual enjoyment. Here are the greatest “April Fools” jokes in opera! Of course, the clincher of a true April Fool’s joke is that you let the person know they have been fooled once it is all over. April Fools Day is the day to prank fellow friends and enjoy watching them suffer under false assumptions.

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