The Met: Live in HD Multimedia Gallery Presents Don Carlo 12/11

The Metropolitan Opera's first new production of Verdi's Don Carlo since 1979 will continue The Met: Live in HD series, with a live transmission of the performance on Saturday, December 11 at 12:30 pm ET/9:30 am PT to movie theaters worldwide.

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Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of London's National Theatre, directs Don Carlo, a dark and intense epic in which love, war, politics, and religion combine in Spain at the height of the Inquisition. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who led last season's Live in HD transmission of Carmen, will conduct Verdi's grand opera. Roberto Alagna (Live in HD: Carmen, La Rondine, Roméo et Juliette) will sing the conflicted title character; Marina Poplavskaya (Live in HD: Turandot) will portray Elisabeth of Valois, torn between duty to her husband, Philip, and love for his son, Carlo; Anna Smirnova is the scheming Princess Eboli; Simon Keenlyside (Live in HD: Hamlet) is the revolutionary Rodrigo; Ferruccio Furlanetto sings the tyrannical and tormented King Philip II; and Eric Halfvarson is the opera's ultimate authority figure, the Grand Inquisitor.

Met star soprano Deborah Voigt is the HD host for Don Carlo. The intermission features include live interviews with Poplavskaya, Alagna, Keenlyside, Furlanetto, Maestro Nézet-Séguin, and Marcello Giordani, who stars with Voigt in the next transmission, La Fanciulla del West on January 8.

Gary Halvorson directs the transmission and Jay David Saks is the music producer.

For more information, the public is encouraged to visit www.metopera.org/hdlive.

 

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