Germán Alcántara sings 'O Carlo, ascolta' from Don Carlo (Battle of the Arias #3: Verdi)

The Royal Opera's Germán Alcántara sings 'O Carlo, ascolta' from Verdi's Don Carlo, as part of our Battle of the Arias series.
Politics and religion are dangerously entwined in Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo. Based on a 1787 play by Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlo was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1867. Verdi made extensive revisions to the opera over the following 20 years, which contains a host of vividly drawn characters, depicted through some of the composer's most complex music.
Argentinean baritone Germán Alcántara was a member of our Jette Parker Young Artist programme in the 2018/19 Season.
Alcántara studied at the School of Music in Misiones, the National University of Cuyo-Mendoza, the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris (under Rosa Dominguez) and the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid (with Ryland Davies). His opera repertory includes Uberto (La serva padrona), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Juan Pedro (La rosa del Azafrán), Blas Infante (Elegia Granadina) and Alférez Real (Fiesta de Corpus Christi) in Argentina, Milord (L’italiana in Londra) with Le Parlement de Musique, Marcello (La bohème) and Don Giovanni with Escales Lyriques and Hermann and Schlemil (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) for Opéra de Metz.
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[@donaldgrove1972]

This guy has such a gorgeous voice!

[@patriciaquick6824]

Bravo 👏! Thanks for sharing that beautiful piece.

[@aetherslugstar1889]

Absolutly gorgeous

[@ShaowenJu]

beautiful!!

[@domenicgattellaro3708]

Bravo German that was beautiful thank you 😀

[@emilytolman46]

Wow!!

[@johnonahotroyin7394]

❤❤❤

[@phil2u48]

Great characterization…! 👏🏼

[@ercheche8486]

what to say, quite normal voice , a voice for second parts, not a first class , more a tenor than a bariton , plus a litle confused about the rol , is Rodrigo with Rigoletto body language

[@Nosa239]

You need to see him in Don Giovanni

[@ercheche8486]

I don't need to do it , i heard enough baritones singing and rehearsing in the same room to know when somebody is a first class It is Rodrigo pretending be Rigoletto , being Marullo. You can waist your time seeing him in Don Giovanni, you need to see Siepi and Ramey in that rol , in that way you can learn how to have a judgement.Probably you are a friend@@Nosa239

[@ercheche8486]

@9 You must see Siepi and Ramey doing that role to have a good judgement , let me know when you do it. You must be elegant and mainly with class to sing Don Giovanni, He is a Rodrigo , pretending to be Rigoletto being just Marullo. I heard too many first class baritones singing at the side of my shoulders to be able to identify one just with one single note. `he probably knows that and try to cover issues and quality with acting, but it is quite obvious when the nature is not there, It is an ugly voice , well educated and a professional , for sure but not a first class .Baritones Amartuvshin Enkhbat and Ernesto Petti are first class in his generation, they are the best of the best , i am not a friend nor a hater , just a professional with a solid opinion