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[@joannilson2900]

I have seen many productions of Don Carlo - but in my opinion this staging of the autodafe scene is perhaps the best ever. The brutality of the Inquisition - even with the addition of the "speaking" role of the priest in speaking to the [alleged] heretics - and the scene of their burning at the stake - is starkly and dramatically presented. So sorry that someone decided to "clip" the presentation of the Flemish deputees and Don Carlo's confrontation with his father from this excerpt.... Wish I could find a this entire HD presentation on KZbin, I can't even find the DVD on the Met Opera Shop...... As Richard Craig noted below - this is truly one of Verdi's greatest operas, and perhaps the most phenomenal scene short only of the Triumphal Scene from Aida.

[@tatters1232006]

To my mind this is Verdi,s grandest and greatest of all his operas with some of his greatest music and can only be sung by the best singers

[@diecheneydie]

Love him. Saw him at the Met as Silva in Ernani.

[@brunoantony3218]

Ferruccio Furlanetto is a force of nature, full of power and also grace. Notice the way he moves his legs at 11:07 !

[@דוידדיין-ה2ל]

i whant don carlo from the met full free plice !!

[@manqobatwala9670]

how can they cut the fun part ahhhhhh

[@BellaFirenze]

Don Carlos (8 July 1545 - 24 July 1568) was nothing like the Carlo of the opera. The descriptions of his behaviour suggest that he had serious mental problems. Rumour in the Spanish court had it that he enjoyed roasting animals alive and on one occasion blinded all the horses in the royal stables. At age eleven he ordered the whipping of a serving girl for no known reason. The Venetian ambassador, Hieronymo Soranzo, thought that Carlos was "ugly and repulsive" and once tried to force a shoemaker to eat shoes Carlos had found unsatisfactory. Another Venetian, Paolo Tiepolo, wrote: "He [Prince Carlos] wished neither to study nor to take physical exercise, but only to harm others. The young Infante Carlos was delicate and deformed. He grew up proud and willful and, as a young adult, began to show signs of mental instability. Many of his physical and psychological disabilities may have stemmed from the inbreeding common to his family, the House of Habsburg, and the royal houses of Portugal (House of Aviz) and Spain. He died at age 23, completely insane.

[@simosumi5013]

Ma Filippo? Metropolitan? Azz

[@simosumi5013]

Ma se ha steccato e preso cento fiati

[@robertotorres9945]

Esta producción se hizo primero con Rolando villazon en otro teatro

[@celiefauvel5858]

yaaaas love love

[@Mousy677]

right, what's all this with the priest then

[@joannilson2900]

Ratboy genius: to answer your question about the speaking part of the priest, it's difficult to say. There are several versions of this opera, but I can see no version other than the Met''s 2010 version, in which this spoken part, the "Priest Inquisitor" appears. This includes in the Ricordi scores for both the 4 and 5 act versions... This may have been an "addition" of the scenic director. While I tend to be a purist, I actually found this addition to be fascinating - even if theologically really bizarre! (The heretics are almost forcibly provided the communion host before they are taken off to be burned at the stake ...and none of them repented!!). Oh well.... The music is so glorious ...who cares!!!

[@seneca1955]

Its interesting to see this because at the latest revival (2017) at Covent Garden this scene has been substantially revised by the director. The image of Christ on the left is now occupied by a dais on which Philip and Elisabetta sit. The spoken dialogue is cut and the pyres are offstage.

[@alainlecopain]

peter hayden I

[@odetttena8416]

Muy bo ita

[@gerPzoidberg]

full

[@tigertile5411]

12:30 burning

[@patrickzielke4478]

Furlanetto 😵😵😵

[@GIF_CANCEL]

Long live the Holy Inquisition! May it come back in full force through out the world forever more! May The Holy Catholic Church be lead by strong Zealous clergy, magistrates, and leaders again, and may The Church's enemies lick the dust forever!

[@Mousy677]

what a worrying takeaway from a depiction of people being burned alive.

[@cliffgaither]

GIF CANCEL --- Don't you think the World has had enough of The Church ? The Hundreds of Years of The Terror of The Inquisition ? The Sanctification of Slavery ? The enrichment of The Church as poverty continues throughout the Centuries ? I won't mention Children !

[@Triosfrios]

And may you get a brain some day!

[@veraahllof]

Sarcasm :DDD

[@Amanda-sf3fx]

Are you having a laugh?!

[@gerardmignon700]

mise en scène nulle. C'est un défilé sans âme, aucune intention dramatique. Furnaletto n'a pas le timbre de Philippe, loin s'en faut.

[@stephenmonkemeier9464]

I agree. It's chaos