Verdi: Don Carlo

Verdi: Don Carlo

Verdi: Don Carlo
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Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Orchestra: Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra Covent Garden
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Performer: Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz
Performer: Galina Gorchakova
Performer: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Performer: Olga Borodina
Performer: Richard Margison
Performer: Robert Lloyd
Performer: Roberto Scandiuzzi
Performer: Robin Leggate
Performer: Roderick Williams
Performer: Sylvia McNair
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-03-09
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Su, Cacciator!
  2. Fontainebleau! Forest Immensa E Solitaria!
  3. Io La Vidi
  4. Il Suon Del Corno Alfin Nel Bosco Tace
  5. Al Mio Pie, Perche?
  6. Di Qual Amor, Di Quant'ardor
  7. Al Fedel Ch'ora Viene, O Signora
  8. L'Ora Fatale E Suonata!
  9. Inni Di Festa Lieti Echeggiate
  10. Il Glorioso Re Di Francia, Il Grande Enrico
  11. Carlo Il Sommo Imperatore
  12. Al Chiostro Di San Giusto
  13. E Lui! Dessa! L'Infante!
  14. Dio, Che Nell'alma Infondere
  15. Sotto Ai Folti, Immensi Abeti
  16. Nei Giardin Del Bello
  17. La Regina!
Music CD 2
  1. Io Vengo A Domandar Grazia All Mia Regina
  2. Il Re!
  3. Non Pianger, Mia Compagna
  4. Restate!
  5. O Signor, Di Fiandra Arrivo
  6. Oso Lo Sguardo Tuo
  7. Preludio
  8. A Mezzanotte, Ai Giardin Della Regina
  9. Al Mio Furor Sfuggite Invano
  10. Spuntato Ecco Il Di D'Esultanza
  11. Sire, No, L'Ora Estrema
  12. Sire! Egli E Tempo Ch'io Viva!
Music CD 3
  1. Ella Giammai M'Amo!
  2. Il Grande Inquisitor!
  3. Nell'ispano Suol Mai L'Eresia Domino
  4. Giustizia! O Sire!
  5. Ah! Sii Maledetto, Sospetto Fatale
  6. Pieta! Perdon! Per La Rea Che Si Pente
  7. O Don Fatale
  8. Son Io, Mio Carlo
  9. Per Me Giunto E Il Di Supremo
  10. O Carlo, Ascolta...
  11. Mio Carlo, A Te La Spada Io Rendo!
  12. Tu Che Le Vanita
  13. Francia, Nobile Suol
  14. E Dessa
  15. Ma Lassu Ci Vedremo In Un Mondo Migliore
  16. Si, Per Sempre!

Free Music Notes for Verdi: Don Carlo

Free Music Review: A beautiful reading despite the casting of some light voices
Hit: 5 Stars


To get the bad news over with quickly, the voices in Haitink's 1997 Don Carlo from London tend to be on the light side, and few of the performers are steeped in Italian style. The King Philip, Roberto Scandiuzzi, is Italian, but his voice sounds woolly and lacks authority. Elisabetta is the then-promising Russian soprano Galina Gorchakova. She has the vocal heft to sing any of Verdi's great dramatic soprano roles, but here she is a bit mature-sounding, and throaty in a Slavic way that takes some getting used to. She's at the opposite extreme from Mirella Freni, whose lyric soprano was clearly too light in Karajan's otherwise gripping set on EMI.

After that it's clear sailing. We get a fine orchestral reading from Haitink, more straightforward than either Karajan or Giulini but refined and beautifully balanced--only at times does the pacing feel too relaxed. It's certainly possible to play the score as a mroe haunted, doomed affair--the three leads, after all, are consumed by guilt almost from the beginning--but that's not Haitink's approach. Hvorostovsky gives one of his best performances on disc as Rodrigo, and the American tenor Richard Margison comes amazingly close to superstars like Domingo and Carreras as Don Carlo. The three bass roles of the Monk, Philip II, and the Grand Inquisitor are taken by very good singers, even if they don't erase memories of Boris Christoff or Nicolai Ghiaurov. Olga Broodina makes for a world-class Eboli, as one would expect. The orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera Covent Garden sound just right in scale, not overblown like Karajan's Berlin Phil.

Editions have become complicated for this opera. Here we have the 1886 Modena version, an Italian translation in effect of the five-act French score premiered in Paris. I msut say I thoroughly enjoyed it. to the point that even Gorchakova's miscasting can't bring five stars down to four.
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