An immersive auto-da-fé: Konwitschny's Don Carlos sizzles

By Mark Pullinger, 31 May 2019

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“a splendid account that embraced the full majesty of Verdi’s score”

Reviewed at Hamburgische Staatsoper: Main Hall, Hamburg on 30 May 2019

Verdi, Don Carlo(s)

Staatsoper Hamburg

Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor

Peter Konwitschny, Director

Johannes Leiacker, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Gábor Bretz, Philippe II

Pavel Černoch, Don Carlos

Alexey Bogdanchikov, Rodrigue, marquis de Posa

Luigi De Donato, Le Grand Inquisiteur

Lianna Haroutounian, Elisabeth de Valois

Elena Zhidkova, La princesse Eboli

Alin Anca, Un moine

Gabriele Rossmanith, Thibault

Hiroshi Amako, Le comte de Lerme

Na'ama Shulman, Une voix céleste

Hans Toelstede, Lighting Designer

Werner Hintze, Dramaturgy

Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster / chorus director

Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

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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.

Thrills, chills and an immersive auto-da-fé: Konwitschny's Don Carlos sizzles in Hamburg