Kaufmann talks about Don Carlo in English Part1

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2009年09月19日

カテゴリ： OPERA

Jonas Kaufmann and Semyon Bychkov talked on a radio show hosted by Sean Raffety
14 Sep 2009
Broadcasted on BBC radio3 In Tunes

Part1

Music-
Carlo's aria " Io l'ho perduta "
sung by Jonas Kaufmann conducted by Marco Armiliato
Plague ? Philharmonic orchester

Q: Is it your first Don Carlo live on stage or not in Covent Garden?

JK: um- hello everybody! - um- it is my first five act Don Carlo

Q: Yeah there's a four act version as well.

JK: four act version cut off several things so this aria we've just heard is 4 act version it's all flash back and all about his beautiful memories he used to have in short moment with Elizabetta first act we didn't have but here we do!

Q: Don Carlo has engaged beautiful Elizabeth, and the last minutes the King has taken for himself that's the beginning of the tragedy.

Q: Five minutes happiness in four and half hours of Verdi, there's happiness in it. but still course you glorious music here how do you like this voice sounds it's quite low for tenors isn't it?

JK : It is. That's true, um it's interesting specially, I would say, in this opera Verdi has chosen not only for the tenor obviously but for everybody very challenging boi of composing it reminds me a little bit of French opera way I mean it's legendary composed for Paris but usually he sticks the certain kind of voice and he composes that all the way through from the beggining to the end nevertheless whether the person is happy or in terrible situations, we are here together with the characters, together with the emotions also the music all are challenges, changing so you need to have some low register also have high register both at the same time forte and piano and so yeah it's- I 'd love it I have to say cause you can show every angle of your voice.

Q: Yeah well, what a glorious voice that is Verdi was lookin' for to this, waving baton to Semyon Bychkov who was last year with Lohengrin by Wagner and what a huge success that was, in a way I suppose Verdi get to close Wagnerian's sweep isn't it in this opera?

SB: Hahaha it's quite true because what strikes me as in the beginning of the Fontainebleau perceiving you still have Verdi eliminating from Bel Canto style then as the opera progresses more and more there is this tremendous symphony development, something just sort of doesn't stop in a way, quite Wagnerian, in this persistence of the action that is going forward is inevitable the fate and the destiny of every character is inevitable, you cannot change you cannot escape you are the prisoners.

Q: it is overwhelming wonderous piece, some critics say the ruffed of evenness in it is inevitable

SB: you know, I would have been grateful if I could herit the little bit of that of evenness.(giggling)

Q: Where do you place it in Verdi's works, where do you place Don Carlo?

SB: Don Carlo for me is one of the most extraordinary masterpieces, not only as Verdi, but in the entire operatic literature, it is as important as Boris Godunov, it's important as the Ring of Wagner, it is a kind of role emblaces the entire scope of human existence. You see politics mixed with the contradiction and confrontation between the state and the church, you see the human characters trapped in a conflict between themselves, between their duty between their honour, between their instinct between their love, and the obligations, so it is actually difficult, because you have entire the entire scope is existence presence rather than just kind of a personal drama that is seen in Traviata.

Q: Here we have ensemble, recorded Claudio Abbado and Katia Ricciarelli as Elizabetta. We have one figure Eboli was telling the king that Elizabetg has his son's portrait hidden, of course he going to blinding rage in four minutes versus opera triumphs people singin' about conflictions somehow we can get the whole picture evolve

Music-
4 people, Filippo, Rodrigo, Ebori and Elizabetta sing in Don Carlo 4 act
in French version (20:29)

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