Giuseppe Verdi Don Carlo
Jonas Kaufmann Wiener Philharmoniker Thomas Hampson Conducted by Antonio Pappano Anja Harteros Staged by Matti Salminen Peter Stein Giuseppe Verdi “Great stage and great drama, great gowns and grand gestures, great sound Don Carlo and great voices” – this was the apt summing-up by the Wiener Zeitung of Peter Stein’s “Don Carlo” at the Salzburg Festival. A stellar cast and the Conductor Antonio Pappano Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Antonio Pappano made this drama Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker of love and freedom into a triumph acclaimed by ecstatic applause. Chorus Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor The power of Church and State to keep two lovers apart, the clash of authority Chorus Master Jörn Hinnerk Andresen and liberalism from the days of the Spanish Inquisition have lost none of their compelling intensity and present-day relevance. In no other opera did Verdi Stage Director Peter Stein introduce such a variety of human relationships. His music impressively conjures up the longing for love and happiness and the atmosphere of Filippo II. Matti Salminen hopelessness that hangs over this sombre drama throughout. The doomed Don Carlo Jonas Kaufmann love of heir to the throne Don Carlo for the Queen, the bride once promised him and now the wife of his father, the bitter loneliness of this very father Elisabetta di Valois Anja Harteros and king who is subject for all his power to the will of the implacable Grand Rodrigo Thomas Hampson Inquisitor are still a deeply moving spectacle for modern audiences. La Principessa Eboli Ekaterina Semenchuk Il Grande Inquisitore Eric Halfvarson Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros are the young couple “who simply Un frate (Carlo V) Robert Lloyd command our reverence “ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). Kaufmann as Carlos is “an Tebaldo Maria Celeng unsurpassable model of splendid tenor singing and ultra-sensitive gradations Una voce dal cielo Sen Guo of expression” (Badische Zeitung), Anja Harteros a dramatic soprano of Il Conte di Lerma/Un Araldo reale Benjamin Bernheim consummate excellence whose “’Tu che le vanità’ takes us as near to heaven as we earthlings will ever reach” (Telegraph). They are aptly matched by the character study of Matti Salminen as an utterly lonely ageing King and Produced by ORF Thomas Hampson as Rodrigo, “splendid in his phrasing and deeply moving Video Director Agnes Méth – an ideal casting” (Kurier). Great sound is assured with Antonio Pappano in command, given his long experience of Verdi. “Rarely did Verdi sound so lively. It thunders and rages, languishes and blazes” (Südwest Presse), “a sensation” Length: approx. 240' (Badische Zeitung)! Shot in HDTV 1080/50i Cat. no. A04050012 The staging is the work of a true past master of the scenic art: lavish Cinemascope settings, such as only the exceptionally broad stage of the Great Festival Hall will allow, depict telling images as historical panorama. The A co-production of action is elegantly cultivated without being torn out of context, while plumbing ORF, UNITEL, NHK, ZDF for Arte the true depths of the opera’s story. The director and conductor have chosen in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker, to present a revised edition of the opera’s original Salzburg Festival and CLASSICA version, with the Fontainebleau first act that tells the backstory, but in Italian and without the ballet scene specially added for Paris – in every respect a unique performance!
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