[Met Performance] CID:353644
Don Carlo {192} Metropolitan Opera House: 11/26/2010.
Metropolitan Opera House
November 26, 2010
In Italian
DON CARLO {192}
Giuseppe Verdi--François Joseph Méry/Camille du Locle
Don Carlo...............Roberto Alagna
Elizabeth of Valois.....Marina Poplavskaya
Rodrigo.................Simon Keenlyside
Princess Eboli..........Anna Smirnova
Philip II...............Ferruccio Furlanetto
Grand Inquisitor........Eric Halfvarson
Priest Inquisitor.......Tommaso Matelli
Celestial Voice.........Jennifer Check
Friar...................Alexei Tanovitski *
Tebaldo................ Layla Claire
Count of Lerma..........Eduardo Valdes
Countess of Aremberg....Anne Dyas
Flemish Deputy..........Donovan Singletary
Flemish Deputy..........Keith Harris
Flemish Deputy..........Christopher Schaldenbrand
Flemish Deputy..........Joshua Benaim
Flemish Deputy..........Tyler Simpson
Flemish Deputy..........Eric Jordan
Conductor...............Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Production..............Nicholas Hytner
Designer................Bob Crowley
Lighting designer.......Mark Henderson
Don Carlo is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet
Performing Version
The Met's new production is played in five acts with two intermissions, the first between Acts 2 and 3, and the second after Act 3. The version used is Verdi's final revision from 1886, sung in Italian, including the act that takes place at Fontainebleau (Act 1). It is almost identical to the version used in the Met's previous production by John Dexter, with the exception of the opening section of the Fontainebleau scene. Instead of the longer scene between Elisabeth and the woodcutters which opened the opera in the Dexter production, the new production uses the abbreviated version with which Verdi replaced the original just before the Paris premiere in 1867.
The music of the Herald is sung by the Count of Lerma.
*Alexei Tarnovitski was listed as Alexei Trarnovitsky in the program.