Verdi - DON CARLO

DVD
Filippo II – Ferruccio Furlanetto
Don Carlo – Rolando Villazon
Elisabetta di Valois – Marina Poplavskaya
La Principessa d'Eboli – Sonia Ganassi
Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa – Simon Keenlyside
Il Grande Inquisitore – Eric Halfvarson
Un Frate – Robert Lloyd
Tebaldo – Pumeza Matshikiza
Il Conte di Lerma – Nikolia Matsic

Royal Opera Chorus
Chorus Director – Renato Belsadonna
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor - Antonio Pappano

Stage director Nicholas Hytner

Set designs Bob Crowley
Costume designs Bob Crowley
Lighting design Mark Henderson

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, June 2008

5099963160994
EMI Classics

“Things looked up at the beginning of Act IV, when Ferruccio Furlanetto’s majestic Philip II held the house spellbound for his gloomy interior monologue of self-recrimination. Finally, the music had found a near-ideal interpreter — a voice of stature and a charismatic actor deeply inside the psychology of his role.” Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times

“Ferruccio Furlanetto's Philip must be one of the great operatic interpretations of the modern age. He seamlessly integrates words, music and gestures to create a believable character.” Jim Pritchard SEEN AND HEARD OPERA REVIEW