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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780769775678
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0769775675
Label: Kultur Video
Languages: FrenchOriginal LanguageUnknownEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
MPN: D2031D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Running Time: 213 minutes
Studio: Kultur Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1987

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
This is a 1996 all-star production from Paris of the original French version of Verdi's epic five-act opera, Don Carlos. First produced in 1867, only Wagner would write musical drama on a grander scale, and because of the three-and-a-half-hour running time, most subsequent productions have made substantial cuts. This is therefore a rare opportunity to witness Verdi's tragedy in its entirety.

In the 16th century in the aftermath of war between Spain and France, Don Carlo (Roberto Alagna), the heir to the Spanish throne, comes to France to meet with his beloved Elizabeth de Valois (Karita Mattila). Inevitably politics divide the lovers, and while Rodrigue (Thomas Hampson) falls in with Flemish rebels, the Inquisition is determined to be the power behind the peace. This is certainly not Verdi's greatest work, but it contains great music and the stars are allowed to shine with strong characterizations in an elegantly designed production. There are no gimmicks or attempts at spurious contemporary relevance here, simply singers of the caliber of Alagna, Mattila, and Hampson, plus the outstanding Eric Halfvarson as the Grand Inquisitor. This is a production that continues in the 19th-century tradition, and in the process delivers the frisson of world-class opera. --Gary S. Dalkin

Description:
The original French version in five acts by Ursula Günther, revised after the original version by Ursula Günther and Luciano Petazzoni. Published by Ricordi Milan.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Excellent performance but bad sound quality on DVD
I have a problem with this DVD on a technical level. The performances from all is top-notch, with the possible exception of Meier's Veil Song. She ducks all the coloratura throughout the whole aria, which is really a shame. She is otherwise excellent. It is so great hearing Alagna singing French. He is really great as Don Carlos, as is Jose van Dam as the king. Antonio Pappano's conducting is also really great.
But the sound on this DVD is really bad. I don't have anything like a high end ... Read More

Rating:

- Bravo for including Act I of Don Carlos!
This is a great production of Don Carlos, partly because it includes Act I which is so often omitted. Here we have Verdi's original French version of the opera. Without Act I, the opera doesn't come alive for me until the final two acts because it's not until then that all the characters feel like flesh and blood people. In Act I, we get Don Carlos and Elisabeth's touching love duet, followed by the heartbreaking choice on her part to marry Carlos' father. These scenes make the subsequent motivations ... Read More

Rating:

- yeachhh
This is the production that unleashed "The Beast"...singing in the tiny intimate jewl box Theatre du Chatelet, Thomas Hampson began to believe that he could sing Verdi...this production proves again that he CANNOT...after these performances, Hampson began to sing, Macbeth, Ford, Germont and a host of others...all badly and all forgetable...i suppose we will get Hampson as Renato, Amonasro, Miller and Iago before too long...my ears are bleeding already....please stop, Thomas...we can't take it any more

Rating:

- Problems with the concept
First let me say that there is much in the way of incredible singing in this production, and I will cover that thouroughly, but, first I must adress the concept of Carlos in french.
I thought that Verdis dramatic opera, with many Wagnerian aspects, its intense outbursts of visceral emotion and extreme melodrama, calls for italianate spinto voices, and not those of the Lyric french nature. First Roberto Alagna has an INCREDIBLE voice and I am a fan of his artistry. But I get very little ... Read More

Rating:

- Excellent modern video of Verdi's grandest opera
Verdi's Don Carlos was originally meant to be a French grand opera, replete with a ballet. He revised the opera several times. One version eliminates the first act altogether. The version performed at the Met is the "1886" version, which restores the original first act, but also uses the Italian translation. There is a video of that Don Carlo available. It has an excellent cast and is a rather stiff, old-fashioned production.
This 1996 video from the Paris Chatelet restores the original French language, ... Read More

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