Verdi’s Don Carlo at Coolidge Corner Theater (Sept. 7)

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When: Sunday, September 7, 2014 — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Coolidge Corner Theatre — 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA
Directly from the Salzburg Festival: With its epic scale, Don Carlo lacks the dramatic concision of Verdi's later works, while maintaining a unique structure that builds over its five acts, with the monumental auto-da-fé at the center.

A stellar cast­ including Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, and Thomas Hampston and the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Antonio Pappano make this drama of love and freedom into a triumph acclaimed by ecstatic applause. Working with the original version of the opera – albeit in Italian and minus the ballet, this Don Carlo interweaves the political and the personal in a complex and riveting drama.

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Fonte: Bostoniano

 

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