Rare is the opera that continues to be performed in two languages, but the exigencies of the Paris Opera have imprinted that legacy on a handful of works. Many are mid-nineteenth-century Italian ...
For a sawbuck, you can waltz into the Winspear Opera House every year and see future opera stars, courtesy of a vocal competition hosted by the Dallas Opera. This year, the Friday event will be hosted ...
The opera Don Carlo, composed by Giuseppe Verdi and directed by Michał Znaniecki, is not just about stunning music, though it certainly delivers on that front, but also about a cohesive and engaging ...
The Deutsche Oper, for its new production of Don Carlo, has staged the classic Verdi opera in Italian and brought in several singers well-versed... Massimo Giordano plays the title role, Don Carlo, in ...
The Grand Inquisitor’s time on the stage during Verdi’s Don Carlo is brief, but it’s a pivotal role that will be played by Morris Robinson in the Dallas Opera’s staging. The former football player ...
TDO first presented Don Carlo in 1988. A semi-staged production was planned for March 2020 but was unfortunately cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The company took this time and reimagined this ...
Even the production, revived here by Paul Higgins, seems more fine-tuned than I remember to the scope and symmetries of the drama. Schiller's Shakespearean royal epic as translated by Verdi into grand ...
The 2016 Don Carlo production at the Vienna State Opera, directed by Daniele Abbado, offered a modern, minimalist take on Verdi's masterpiece. Abbado emphasized the psychological and political ...
In this majestic production of Verdi’s Don Carlo, Riccardo Chailly’s qualities as a Verdi conductor are brilliantly displayed in the dramatic precision and transparent instrumental detail he draws ...