[Met Performance] CID:354914
Don Carlo {209} Metropolitan Opera House: 03/16/2013.
Metropolitan Opera House
March 16, 2013
In Italian
DON CARLO {209}
Giuseppe Verdi--François Joseph Méry/Camille du Locle
Don Carlo...............Ramón Vargas
Elizabeth of Valois.....Barbara Frittoli
Rodrigo.................Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Princess Eboli..........Anna Smirnova
Philip II...............Ferruccio Furlanetto
Grand Inquisitor........Eric Halfvarson
Priest Inquisitor.......Tommaso Matelli
Celestial Voice.........Jennifer Check
Friar...................Miklós Sebestyén
Tebaldo.................Jennifer Holloway
Count of Lerma..........Hugo Vera
Countess of Aremberg....Anne Dyas
Flemish Deputy..........Alexey Lavrov
Flemish Deputy..........Paul Corona
Flemish Deputy..........Eric Jordan
Flemish Deputy..........Evan Hughes
Flemish Deputy..........Joshua Benaim
Flemish Deputy..........David Crawford
Conductor...............Lorin Maazel [Last performance]
Production..............Nicholas Hytner
Designer................Bob Crowley
Lighting designer.......Mark Henderson
Stage Director..........J. Knighton Smit
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 current 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.