Don Carlos: more or less
“Trove Thursday” presents an all-star five-act Don Carlo from forty years ago tonight.
94 pieces since 2006 — in 15 roles, at 6 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
2 pieces as Elisabetta — stats above show all coverage for Mirella Freni.
View all“Trove Thursday” presents an all-star five-act Don Carlo from forty years ago tonight.
A quintessential theater man as well as a brilliant conductor, James Levine rightfully chose not only the five-act version of Don Carlo for this 1980 performance but begins the opera as Verdi had originally conceived it. The Woodcutters chorus and the episode in which Elisabetta gives her necklace to a destitute woman are pages essential to […]
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