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La Scala regulars provide a fine musical display in Don Carlos

By James Imam, 20 January 2017
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“Eric Halfvarson's Grande Inquisitor... pure fanatical rage funnelled through an age-wracked body”
Reviewed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 17 January 2017
Programme
Verdi, Don Carlo(s) (5 act version)
Performers
Teatro alla Scala
Myung-whun Chung, Conductor
Peter Stein, Director
Ferdinand Woegerbauer, Set Designer
Annamaria Heinreich, Costume Designer
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Filippo II
Francesco Meli, Don Carlo
Simone Piazzola, Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa
Eric Halfvarson, Il Grande Inquisitore
Krassimira Stoyanova, Elisabetta di Valois
Ekaterina Semenchuk, La Principessa Eboli
Theresa Zisser, Tebaldo
Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.