The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Don Carlo
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* Notes * The latest Don Carlo (Valentina Simi as Countess of Aremberg, Ana María Martínez as Elisabetta, Nadia Krasteva as Princess Eboli, René Pape as King Philip II, and Mariusz Kwiecień as Rodrigo in Act II Scene 2; photograph by Cory Weaver) that opened at San Francisco Opera this afternoon is impeccably cast from…
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* Notes *The opening of Don Carlo at Opéra national de Paris was a bit slapdash. Graham Vick's production had some attractive elements, but lost a lot of tension in the drama because of how slow scene changes were. This was not helped by the two intermissions for four acts. Tobias Hoheisel's costumes were ostentatious…
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* Notes * The penultimate performance this season of Don Carlo at Staatsoper Unter den Linden was last Monday. The opera was presented in Italian as four acts, which does not start off with Don Carlo and Elisabetta meeting in Fontainebleau. Philipp Himmelmann's production included many scrims and walls, designed by Johannes Leiacker. The set…
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April 26- May 5 2008: OperafestMay 29- June 13 2008: OrfeoJune 16-24 2008: Det Store BankranetAugust 9-29 2008: Porgy and BessSeptember 20- October 20 2008: Don CarloOctober 1-5 2008: MelancholiaOctober 17-23 2008: Dead Beat EscapementOctober 18- November 20 2008: La Clemenza di TitoNovember 6-8 2008: JennyNovember 22-24 2008: Thora på RimolDecember 19 2008- January 19…
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Way back in November 2003 I attended a couple performances of Don Carlos at San Francisco Opera. They did a five act French version, which is unusual. The two leads, Marina Mescheriakova as Elisabeth and Mark Duffin as Don Carlos, were not particularly impressive. The former was shrill and stiff, the latter was too quiet.…
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If all the operas at the Bayerische Staatsoper were as good as their current production of Don Carlo, I would never leave the Nationaltheater. It wasn’t perfect, but all the singers were good, and Zubin Mehta is a fine conductor. They chose to do their own version of Verdi’s Don Carlo, something in-between the full…
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