DON CARLO

Teatro Comunale di Modenaon 6 February 2021, OperaStreamingpresents a concert performance of Verdi’s Don Carloin its four–act 1884 version.Jordi Bernàcerdirects the Orchestra dell’Emilia–Romagna Arturo Toscaniniin Verdi’s dramatic tale of love and politics, joined by an internationally–acclaimed Italian castincluding tenor Andrea Carèin the title role, bass Michele Pertusi as the King of Spain, baritone Luca Salsi as Rodrigo, soprano Anna Pirozzi as Elisabeth de Valois, and mezzo–soprano Judit Kutasi as the Princess Eboli.OperaStreaming presentsopera liveon YouTube from the historic opera houses of Emilia–Romagna region, where Giuseppe Verdiwas himself born, in Busseto near Parma. Both Luca Salsi(Rodrigo) and Michele Pertusi(Fillippo II) were born in nearby Parma and educated at Parma’s Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito. Michele Pertusi has previously sung Filippo II at the Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real de Madridand the Opéra de Lyon; Luca Salsi recently appeared as Iago in Otellowith the Berliner Philharmoniker and in Simon Boccanegra at the Salzburg Festival.A former student of Raina Kabaivanska and Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Andrea Carètakes the title role of Don Carlo following recent appearances at the Metropolitan Opera House, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, and as Don José in the Royal Opera House’s 2018 Carmen.talian soprano Anna Pirozzi has appeared in Andrea Chénierat the San Francisco Opera, as Lady Macbeth in Madrid with Plácido Domingo,and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and in Il Trovatoreat the Royal Opera House in London. She returns to Modena following her appearances as Suor Angelica and Donna Leonora in La forza del destinoat the Teatro in 2018–9. Romanian mezzo–soprano Judit Kutasi, heard at La Scala in Milan, Zurich Opera and Berlin, sings the Princess EboliModena’sconcert performance is of the four–act ‘Milan’ versionof 1884rather thanthe five–act ‘Modena’ version associated with the Teatro.The performance is a coproduction by the Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia and Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza.