Grand opera, great voices: Don Carlo opens the San Carlo season

Ludovic Tézier (Posa) and Elīna Garanča (Eboli)

Matthew Polenzani (Don Carlo)

Ailyn Pérez (Elisabetta) and chorus

Fabián Augusto Gómez (Jester), Matthew Polenzani (Don Carlo) and Ludovic Tézier (Posa)

Matthew Polenzani (Don Carlo) and Fabián Augusto Gómez (Jester)

By Mark Pullinger, 30 November 2022

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“this show is cast from real strength, with some Rolls Royce voices on display”

Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 29 November 2022

Verdi, Don Carlo(s) (Italian, 5 acts)

Teatro di San Carlo

Juraj Valčuha, Conductor

Claus Guth, Director

Étienne Pluss, Set Designer

Petra Reinhardt, Costume Designer

Olaf Freese, Lighting Designer

Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

Roland Horvath, Video

Yvonne Gebauer, Dramaturgy

Michele Pertusi, Filippo II

Matthew Polenzani, Don Carlo

Ludovic Tézier, Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa

Ailyn Pérez, Elisabetta di Valois

Elīna Garanča, La Principessa Eboli

Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Il Grande Inquisitore

Cassandre Berthon, Tebaldo

Maria Sardaryan, Una voce dal cielo

Luigi Strazzullo, Il Conte di Lerma

Massimo Sirigu, Un araldo reale

Giorgi Manoshvili, Un frate

Takaki Kurihara, Deputati fiamminghi

Eugenio Di Lieto, Deputati fiamminghi

Giuseppe Todisco, Deputati fiamminghi

Ignas Melnikas, Deputati fiamminghi

Giovanni Impagliazzo, Deputati fiamminghi

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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