Thanks for the clip! Wow, the way they switch roles, first one and then the other hovering over his friend and wanting to help, but being refused...yes, excellent acting.
What struck me was how passive Carlo is throughout the scene, and then I watched the next minute or two, and it looks he does a total 180. It reminded me of a passage I ran into on the internet a couple days ago. It's from a novel, by an apparently famous German author Nobel laureate author named Günter Grass, whom selenak's no doubt heard of and probably read but I hadn't, about German reunification. The passage in question describes a (I think fictional) play about the Katte affair that's put on during the removal of Fritz's remains to Sanssouci in 1991.
After Katte is killed in the play, Fritz curls up into a tiny ball of trembling despair. Then, and here you have to forgive Google Translate: "While a white sheet was being draped over Katte's body, the Crown Prince, who at the moment was still folded on the floor, his heart broken, rose and grew larger than life. The young girl who played him indulged in acrobatic exercises as a young man in the interweaving of the scaffolding. She made clowning, jumped on the platform, suggesting the flight of an eagle, jumped over the friend's corpse, walked on her hands, shone by serial dangerous jumps, forwards and backwards, declared symbolically some wars for a yes, for a no, tore up treaties, stole provinces, fought dozens of battles, passed over corpses with a skill now well acquired, drove on one side, then on the other chorus of mimes - was driven out in turn but did not admit defeat."
Now, of course Don Carlo doesn't end that way, but the sudden rise of Carlo to his feet, sword in hand, defiant, reminded me of that passage.
Also, if you hadn't pointed out the poses in which Posa's singing, I wouldn't have noticed, but YES! That's impressive.
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What struck me was how passive Carlo is throughout the scene, and then I watched the next minute or two, and it looks he does a total 180. It reminded me of a passage I ran into on the internet a couple days ago. It's from a novel, by an apparently famous German author Nobel laureate author named Günter Grass, whom
After Katte is killed in the play, Fritz curls up into a tiny ball of trembling despair. Then, and here you have to forgive Google Translate: "While a white sheet was being draped over Katte's body, the Crown Prince, who at the moment was still folded on the floor, his heart broken, rose and grew larger than life. The young girl who played him indulged in acrobatic exercises as a young man in the interweaving of the scaffolding. She made clowning, jumped on the platform, suggesting the flight of an eagle, jumped over the friend's corpse, walked on her hands, shone by serial dangerous jumps, forwards and backwards, declared symbolically some wars for a yes, for a no, tore up treaties, stole provinces, fought dozens of battles, passed over corpses with a skill now well acquired, drove on one side, then on the other chorus of mimes - was driven out in turn but did not admit defeat."
Now, of course Don Carlo doesn't end that way, but the sudden rise of Carlo to his feet, sword in hand, defiant, reminded me of that passage.
Also, if you hadn't pointed out the poses in which Posa's singing, I wouldn't have noticed, but YES! That's impressive.