![]() ![]() Warmth is the one quality this enormously accomplished singer has sometimes lacked, but it was here in abundance. ![]() There’s snow on the ground in the opening Fontainebleau scene, but Davidsen’s ardent tone sets this, and every other scene in which she appeared, alight. Nicholas Hytner’s stimulatingly postmodernist take on the work, with sets by Bob Crowley, powerfully evoking the lethal conformity imposed on 16th-century Spain by the Catholic church, has already acquired something of a history of its own – Jonas Kaufmann in his prime featured in two previous outings – and this latest revival added a new star to the constellation: Lise Davidsen as Carlo’s inamorata, Elizabeth of Valois. Veteran operagoers fondly recall the opulent, much-revived, Visconti production of 1958, with its parade of legendary names: Jon Vickers, Tito Gobbi and Boris Christoff were all in the first cast the late Grace Bumbry among many distinguished singers to shine subsequently in the production. ![]() Lise Davidsen in Don Carlo at the Royal Opera House (Bill Cooper)įew works are more irrevocably embedded in the Royal Opera folk memory than Verdi’s Don Carlo. ![]()
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