Don Carlo (1983)
• July 28th, 1983 • 3h 33min
Music
Overview
Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vocal and expressive demands of their roles. Louis Quilico was never quite in that league, and he sounds a bit spread and woofy in places here, but he works hard and effectively to bring Rodrigo to life. Placido Domingo recorded his first Don Carlo, for EMI with Giulini, about 15 years before this production, but he looks and sounds fine here -- in the early 1980's he was doing very good Otellos and Lohengrins too, and Furlanetto, still in his 30's, brings a rich, young voice to an old part and succeeds in making the Grand Inquisitor vocally as well as expressively formidable. Levine brings both weight and energy to the score, and that reading fits well with the overall "traditional" design and production -- the Met's wardrobe budget must have been severely taxed, but everybody looks splendid.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Phantom of the Opera
Released on: 1925-09-22
Horror, Music
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Der Freischütz
Released on: 2019-04-12
Music
Weber was at the forefront of the rise of German Romantic opera and sought to dethrone Rossini from ...
La Scala di Seta - Rossini
Released on: 2006-03-03
Music
This beautiful production by renowned opera director Michael Hampe was recorded at the exquisite Roc...
Cavalleria rusticana
Released on: 1982-06-15
TV Movie, Music
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Così fan tutte
Released on: 2013-06-21
Music, TV Movie
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
Released on: 2022-10-22
Music
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky st...
Tosca
Released on: 1941-01-31
Drama, Music
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
The Magic Flute
Released on: 1983-07-02
Music, Romance, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
Amadeus
Released on: 1984-09-19
History, Music, Drama
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka
Released on: 2014-02-08
Music
Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic ...
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Released on: 2008-11-22
Music, Drama
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in...
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Released on: 2015-02-14
Music
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 2017)
Released on: 2019-08-01
Music
This is Laurent Pelly’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées staging of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, wit...
Operette
Released on: 1940-12-20
Music, Drama
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore
Released on: 2020-01-12
Music
It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the w...
La Traviata
Released on: 2001-03-04
Music
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...
Die Walküre
Released on: 2006-05-31
Music
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo
Released on: 2017-03-25
Music
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Der Rosenkavalier
Released on: 2017-05-13
Music
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...