The Chatelet Don Carlos, which I promised ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
esteven AND RL-opera-friend to watch in... October?? ... was yet another casualty of Holiday Vortex (yeah, I know that was months ago now, it has taken me that long to dig myself out), but here we are! zdenka sort-of watched Otello in tandem with me earlier (perhaps I will manage to post about that at some point), and that was so much fun that I twisted her arm into watching this DC in tandem with me ("It's in French! Thomas Hampson is in it!") which was really great <3 (not least because zdenka very helpfully pointed out all the places where it switches from tu to vous and back again and <333333) We watched over a period of about two weeks because of schedule and time-zone constraints (and also because we had a LOT of squeeing to do).
You will be totally unsurprised to hear that I have a lot of thoughts about this one. Basically: I loved it, I loved it lots and lots, just hearing the French is absolutely lovely, and the singing and acting was generally superb. Hampson of course (despite the wig, he's just always SO GOOD, both vocally and acting, omg), but also Karita Mattila as Elisabeth was Amazing, I loved her voice. But everyone was really just great.
(I switch between French and Italian/Anglicized names in the following: French when talking about this production, and Italian/Anglicized when talking about other productions I've seen, which have almost all been Italian. I'm also going to refer to the Hampson-Kaufmann Salzburg 2013 a bunch because it was really interesting to me to compare Hampson in the two productions.)
I also don't know that I've watched another Don Carlo(s) that's so romantic. ( Cut for length. )
esteven AND RL-opera-friend to watch in... October?? ... was yet another casualty of Holiday Vortex (yeah, I know that was months ago now, it has taken me that long to dig myself out), but here we are! zdenka sort-of watched Otello in tandem with me earlier (perhaps I will manage to post about that at some point), and that was so much fun that I twisted her arm into watching this DC in tandem with me ("It's in French! Thomas Hampson is in it!") which was really great <3 (not least because zdenka very helpfully pointed out all the places where it switches from tu to vous and back again and <333333) We watched over a period of about two weeks because of schedule and time-zone constraints (and also because we had a LOT of squeeing to do).You will be totally unsurprised to hear that I have a lot of thoughts about this one. Basically: I loved it, I loved it lots and lots, just hearing the French is absolutely lovely, and the singing and acting was generally superb. Hampson of course (despite the wig, he's just always SO GOOD, both vocally and acting, omg), but also Karita Mattila as Elisabeth was Amazing, I loved her voice. But everyone was really just great.
(I switch between French and Italian/Anglicized names in the following: French when talking about this production, and Italian/Anglicized when talking about other productions I've seen, which have almost all been Italian. I'm also going to refer to the Hampson-Kaufmann Salzburg 2013 a bunch because it was really interesting to me to compare Hampson in the two productions.)
I also don't know that I've watched another Don Carlo(s) that's so romantic. ( Cut for length. )
