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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Don Carlo
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DESCRIPTION:One of Verdi's great political operas\, it focuses entirely on 
 the individual destinies of the characters\, on their loves\, passions\, d
 esires and disappointments. Marco Arturo Marelli's austere staging deepens
  these conflicts in its visually powerful set\, reminiscent of the Escoria
 l... Conductor: Juraj Valčuha / Friedrich Praetorius\; Director: Marco Ar
 turo Marelli\; With Liang Li / Roberto Tagliavini\, Valentyn Dytiuk\, Andr
 è Schuen / Davide Luciano\, Christina Nilsson / Maria Motolygina\, Karis 
 Tucker and others.\nAbout the workIt is common knowledge that Giuseppe Ver
 di\, by nature a critical man\, not only found much to disapprove of in th
 e trends of his day but also subjected his own work to a continuous proces
 s of editing and revision.\n\nNone of his operas did he alter\, abridge\, 
 rearrange or rewrite more intensely than his grimmest work of all – DON 
 CARLO -\, whose web of political\, religious and social constraints is mos
 t reminiscent of the inescapability of destiny associated with Greek drama
 .\n\nVerdi began writing the opera in 1865\, and twenty years were to pass
  before the premiere in Milan of the four-act version that we are most fam
 iliar with today. The composer not only wrestled with the two languages of
  the piece\, each with its distinctive form of expression. He was also at 
 pains to achieve the best possible result by repeatedly cutting\, reducing
  and rearranging. The opera\, extensive sections of which are faithful to 
 Schiller’s play\, went through no less than seven versions.\n\nIn none o
 f the opera’s characters does the light of reason sparkle. Prisoners of 
 their situations\, prisoners of their own reins of control and of their ow
 n making\, above all prisoners of a deadly\, ever-looming spiritual power 
 greater even than secular hegemony… Verdi captures the essential helples
 sness of human beings entangled in this network of terror: at best\, death
  brings release.\n\nAbout the productionMarco Arturo Marelli brings Verdi'
 s epic opera classic to the stage in a visually stunning way. The struggle
  for freedom and independence under the rule of the absolutist King Philip
  II is emphasised as a central theme. The unshakeable power of the church\
 , which is chiselled into the foundations of this society\, is always pres
 ent behind everything. Embodied in the Inquisition\, it makes short work o
 f anything that could pose a threat to it by attempting to shake up the ex
 isting conditions.
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