Tag Archives: Don Carlo

Top ten operas 2022

Posted on December 26, 2022 by Mark Pullinger

This was the year that opera houses got back to something approaching “normality” post-pandemic. It’s easy to forget that at the start of 2022, Covid restrictions were still very much in place: visiting Vienna in January, one needed proof of … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Adam Smith, Adele Thomas, Ailyn Pérez, Alain Altinoglu, Alcina, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Asmik Grigorian, Bajazet, Claus Guth, Corinne Winters, Dialogues des Carmélites, Don Carlo, Don Carlos, Elena Stikhina, Elena Zilio, Eleonora Buratto, Elina Garanca, Emma Dante, Enea Scala, Gábor Bretz, Garsington Opera, Gerard Schneider, Gianni Schicchi, Glyndebourne, Il tabarro, Il trittico, Irish National Opera, Jack Furness, Jonathan Tetelman, Kristine Opolais, La Monnaie, La Voix humaine, Laurent Pelly, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Lisette Oropesa, Ludovic Tézier, Martin Kusej, Matthew Polenzani, Najmiddin Mavlyanov, Natalya Romaniw, Opera di Roma, Otello, Peter Kálmán, Peter Whelan, Pique Dame, Richard Jones, Rosetta Cucchi, Rossini Opera Festival, Royal Opera, Rusalka, Salome, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Suor Angelica, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro di San Carlo, Theater an der Wien, Tosca, Valery Gergiev | Leave a comment

Royal Opera’s Don Carlo revival fails to ignite

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: Don Carlo *** Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 12th May 2017 “What a day, what a day for an auto-da-fé” sings the chorus in Bernstein’s Candide, “It’s a lovely day for drinking and for watching people fry!” The Royal Opera … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Bertrand de Billy, Bryan Hymel, Christoph Pohl, Don Carlo, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Ildar Abdrazakov, Kristin Lewis, Paata Burchuladze, Royal Opera, Verdi | Leave a comment

Plums and turkeys: a musical voyage around 2016

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Most people I know cannot wait to see the back of 2016. But in the year in which Brexit, Trump and the Grim Reaper were the big winners, I admit to having had a terrific twelve months. A whirl of … Continue reading →

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A superb live Don Carlo from Karajan in Vienna

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: Don Carlo Herbert von Karajan/Wiener Staatsoper (Orfeo) When comparing all the interpretations of Verdi’s Don Carlo(s) on disc (November 2011), I awarded Herbert von Karajan’s 1978 EMI set the title ‘most frustrating studio account’. Wonderfully cast, it suffered at … Continue reading →

Posted in CD | Tagged Agnes Baltsa, Don Carlo, Edita Gruberova, Herbert von Karajan, IRR, José Carreras, Matti Salminen, Mirella Freni, Piero Cappuccilli, Ruggero Raimondi, Verdi, Wiener Staatsoper | Comments Off

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