The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo December 11, 2010

# NCM Fathom brings the fifth season of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in movie theaters nationwide. The broadcast of Verdi’s opera Don Carlo will be presented live for only one day on Saturday , December 11, 2010 at 12:30 PM ET / 9:30 AM PT in select movie theaters. Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his triumphant debut leading Carmen, conducts. “I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera,” Hytner says. “Right through this opera there is, on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending doom and, on the other hand, a succession of the most gloriously open-throated arias, the most fantastically determined music.”
# Cast: Roberto Alagna, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya

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