Don Carlo de Verdi
Franco Zeffirelli (puesta en escena), Riccardo Muti (director) – Con Samuel Ramey (Felipe II), Luciano Pavarotti (Don Carlos), Daniela Dessì (Isabel de Valois)...
Casting
Franco Zeffirelli — Director de escena, escenógrafo
Anna Anni — Diseñadora de vestuario
Gianni Mantovanini — Iluminador
Anna Galli — Esculturas
Samuel Ramey — Felipe II, rey de España
Luciano Pavarotti — Don Carlos, infante de España
Paolo Coni — Rodrigo, marqués de Posa
Sobre el programa...
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.