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Don Carlo Wiener Staatsoper (2019)
Sep. 13th, 2019 09:39 pmSimon Keenlyside, René Pape, Dinara Alieva, Fabio Sartori
I knew it was possible to do a Don Carlo(s) that ran counter to the text and was sometimes infuriating (see also the Willy Decker, which I haven't talked about -- so you can see it didn't make a huge impression on me -- but which I mostly enjoyed) but I did not know until last night that it was possible to do a Don Carlo, with a very very good Rodrigo and Filippo mind you, that was boring.
( it's more fun to complain about it than it was to watch. Mostly. )
I knew it was possible to do a Don Carlo(s) that ran counter to the text and was sometimes infuriating (see also the Willy Decker, which I haven't talked about -- so you can see it didn't make a huge impression on me -- but which I mostly enjoyed) but I did not know until last night that it was possible to do a Don Carlo, with a very very good Rodrigo and Filippo mind you, that was boring.
( it's more fun to complain about it than it was to watch. Mostly. )
