The Met Live in HD presents Don Carlo
By: Gabrielle Sierra Dec. 06, 2010
The opening night performance of Don Carlo on November 22 "earned an enthusiastic ovation" (The New York Times) from critics and audiences: "You've heard about total theater? This is it." (Variety); "A clear-cut hit... rarely have I seen an opera audience so unanimously satisfied" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Don Carlo, a dark and intense epic in which love, war, politics, and religion combine in Spain at the height of the Inquisition, is directed by Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of London's National Theatre and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who led last season's Live in HD transmission of Carmen. Roberto Alagna sings the conflicted title character; Marina Poplavskaya will portray Elisabeth of Valois, torn between duty to her husband, Philip, and love for his son, Carlo; Anna Smirnova is the "fatal beauty" Princess Eboli; Simon Keenlyside 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.
Information about The Met: Live in HD can be found at http://www.metopera.org/hdlive. Tickets in the U.S. range from $18 - $25.
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