- Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
Boris Pinkhasovich, Lisette Oropesa, Juan Diego Flórez, Leonardo Cortellazzi, Michele Pertusi/Carlo Lepore, Valentina Pluzhnikova, Giorgio Misseri
Recorded
After having traced the development of Verdi’s first creative years with the season premieres dedicated to Joan of Arc, Attila and Macbeth, Riccardo Chailly returns to a masterpiece of the composer’s maturity, Don Carlo, of which he has made a memorable video edition in Amsterdam a few years ago. Schiller’s magnificent political drama, composed for Paris and adapted for La Scala by Verdi, has historically been an unmissable event for the La Scala Masters, from Tullio Serafin to Arturo Toscanini, passing through Claudio Abbado, who conducted it twice on the 7th. December 1968 and 1977, and Riccardo. muti. For the new production, Lluís Pasqual returns to La Scala, who from his experience at the Teatre Llure in Barcelona to the years with Strehler at the Piccolo and the Odéon in Paris has made reflection on the Baroque a constant in his activity.