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Giuseppe Verdi, Don Carlo (revised version in 4 acts)

I, 1: "Carlo, il sommo Imperatore"

I, 1: "Io l'ho perduta! ... Io la vidi"

I, 1: "Il duolo della terra"

I, 1: "È lui! Desso! L'Infante!"

I, 1: "Questo arcano dal Re non fu sorpreso ancora?"

I, 1: "Dio, che nell'alma infondere amor"

I, 2: "Sotto ai folti, immensi abeti"

I, 2: "Tra queste mura pie la Regina"

I, 2: "Nei giardin del bello"

I, 2: "La Regina!"

I, 2: "Che mai si fa nel suol francese"

I, 2: "Carlo ch'è sol il nostro amore"

I, 2: "Io vengo a domandar"

I, 2: "Perduto ben, mio sol tesor"

I, 2: "Oh! Carlo! Oh! Carlo!"

I, 2: "Il Re!... Perché sola è la Regina?"

I, 2: "Non pianger, mia compagna"

I, 2: "Restate! Presso alla mia persona"

I, 2: "O Signor, di Fiandra arrivo"

I, 2: "Quest'è la pace che voi date al mondo?"

I, 2: "Osò lo sguardo tuo penetrar il mio soglio"

II, 1: Prelude

II, 1: "A mezzanotte, ai giardin della Regina"

II, 1: "Ed io, che tremava al suo aspetto!"

II, 2: "Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza"

II, 2: "Schiusa or sia la porta del tempio!"

II, 2: "Nel posar sul mio capo la corona"

II, 2: "Sire! Egli è tempo ch'io viva!!"

II, 2: "O ciel! Tu! Rodrigo!"

III, 1: "Ella giammai m'amo!"

III, 1: "Il Grand'Inquisitor!"

III, 1: "Giustizia, giustizia, Sire!"

III, 1: "Ah! sii maledetto, sospetto fatale"

III, 1: "Pieta! Pieta! perdon!"

III, 1: "Ah Più non vedrò la Regina! O don fatale, o don crudel"

III, 2: "Son io, mio Carlo"

III, 2: "Per me giunto e il di supremo"

III, 2: "Che parli tu di morte?"

III, 2: "O, Carlo, ascolta, la madre"

III, 2: "Io morrò ma lieto in core"

III, 2: "Mio Carlo, a te la spada io rendo"

IV: Introduction

IV: "Tu che le vanita"

IV: "Carlo qui verrà"

IV: "Addio! Addio, bei sogni d’ôr"

IV: "E dessa!...Un detto, un sol"

IV: "Vago sogno m’arrise!"

IV: "Ma lassù ci vedremo"

IV: "Si, per sempre!"

Verdi's Don Carlo

Franco Zeffirelli (stage director), Riccardo Muti (conductor) – With Samuel Ramey (Philip II), Luciano Pavarotti (Don Carlo), Daniela Dessì (Elisabeth de Valois)...

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Cast

Franco Zeffirelli — Stage director, set designer

Anna Anni — Costumes designer

Gianni Mantovanini — Lighting designer

Anna Galli — Sculptor

Samuel Ramey — Philippe II, King of Spain

Luciano Pavarotti — Don Carlo, Infante of Spain

Paolo Coni — Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa

Program notes

Enjoy Luciano Pavarotti at the height of his powers in Don Carlo at Milan's La Scala, presented in its four-act version, alongside Samuel Ramey and Daniela Dessi. Under the vigorous baton of maestro Riccardo Mutti, this exceptional cast takes you to 16th-century Spain, thanks to Franco Zeffirelli's sumptuous staging.

Composed for the Paris Opera, Don Carlos (also known as Don Carlo in its Italian versions) subjects its characters to amorous passions that overtake them, on a backdrop of political and religious forces that control their destiny. During a secret meeting, Don Carlos and Elizabeth de Valois discover a mutual affection, their union is to establish peace between France and Spain. In the end, Don Carlos's father, King Philippe II, marries the young woman. The libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Socle anchors these passions in the political context of the oppression of the Flemish by the religious Inquisition, in a dramatic and epic rewriting of history. Accused at the time of its release of being too “Wagnerian”, with the orchestra and its leitmotifs taking center stage, and criticized for its unusual harmonic innovations, Don Carlo stands out today as one of the Italian composer's most powerful and richest works, made timeless by its treatment of the themes of power and oppression.

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