In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket
[DOC] [TLE] View Publication PDF - Clemson University [PAR] Falstaffs being thrown into the river--reflecting many religious rites--and ... Salieri, 
Balfe, and Nicolai--whose The Merry Wives of Windsor is still a popular opera 
with a ... of "the fat woman of Brentford" was mercifully spared him by Boito (Act IV
, ..... climax as the women get the servants to dump basket, clothes, Falstaff, and 
all.