Don Carlo / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto translated into Italian by Achille de Lauzières and Angelo Zanardini after Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle's libretto of Friedrich von Schiller's dramatic poem ; a Royal Opera House production.
Publisher:
EMI Classics,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
2 videodiscs (approximately 211 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Opera in five acts (1886 version). Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos) ; Marina Poplavskaya (Elizabeth of Valois) ; Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa) ; Sonia Ganassi (Princess Eboli) ; Feruccio Furlanetto (Philip II, King of Spain) ; Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor) ; Robert Lloyd (Carlos V) ; Pumeza Matshikiza (Tebaldo) ; Royal Opera Chorus ; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House ; Antonio Pappano, conductor. Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 14 & 17 June and 3 July 2008. Co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, New York and Norwegian National Opera. Program notes and synopsis in English with French and German translations (19 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm) inserted in container. EMI Classics: 50999 6 31609 9 4 (set), 50999 6 41623 9 3 (disc 1), 50999 6 41624 9 2 (disc 2).
Contents:
Disc 1 Acts 1-3 -- Disc 2 Acts 4-5.
Summary:
Fathers and sons, love tainted by politics and the evils of organized religion all come under the dramatic microscope in Verdi's most monumental opera. Antonio Pappano conducts with tremendous sweep, allowing all the principals to bare the souls of their rich and complex characters within Nicholas Hytner's production.
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