Verdi - Don Carlos - Vargas, Anger - Konwitschny, Barcelona 2007Felip II - Giacomo Prestia, Don Carlos - Franco Farina, Rodrigue - Carlo Alvarez, El Gran Inquisidor - Eric Halfvarson, El monjo - Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Elisabeth de Valois - Adrianne Pieczonka, La princesa d'Eboli - Sonia Ganassi, Thibault - Anna Nebot, Veu del cel - Eliana Bayon, El comte de Lerma - Stanislas Arraez
Production from the Vienna State Opera
Chorus and Orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceu
Maurizio Benini
The Gran Teatro del Liceu rolled out Verdi's Don Carlos, the whole nine yards and then some, January 27 - February 14. This is the original Don Carlos created for the Paris Opéra in 1867, not the later Don Carlo, a truncated version in Italian that Verdi put together for La Scala in 1884. This means that in Barcelona it was sung in French, its five acts and ballet exceeding five hours in length.
The Peter Konwitschny production made its way to the Liceu from Vienna, though it was originally staged in Hamburg. Scandal and controversy have accompanied this production from the beginning, though seen now in Barcelona perhaps this controversy can be directed away from the extreme ballet and auto-da-fé to the radical shift effected by Konwitschny in the Phillip monologue
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