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Houston grand opera don carlos
Houston grand opera don carlos









Tune in to listen to the Met Opera broadcast of Don Carlo (sung in Italian), featuring Yonghoon Lee in the title role Barbara Frittoli as Elisabeth de Valois Simon Keenlyside as Rodrigo Ferruccio Furlanetto as Philip II and James Morris as the Grand Inquisitor, Saturday at noon on Houston Public Media Classical 91.7. The ensuing drama pits father against son, crown against church and conscience against loyalty. King Phillippe II of Spain dissolves the engagement of Don Carlos, his son, and Elisabeth de Valois by marrying the French princess himself. But when his father decides to marry Elisabeth instead, Don Carlo doesn’t take it too well! Don Carlos, with intense passions and a majestic score, is the quintessential grand opera. Set against the backdrop of the Hapsburg-Valois War of 1551-1559 and the Dutch revolt in the Spanish Netherlands, the opera tells the story of Don Carlo, son and heir to King Philip II of Spain, who is in love with Elisabeth de Valois, daughter of the French king. Often referred to as the “grandest of the grand operas,” Don Carlo is basedon the Schiller play Don Carlos, Infante of Spain. In this Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn talks to American tenor Brandon Jovanovich, who made his role debut as Don Carlo in Houston Grand Opera’s 2012 production of the opera. In April-May 2011 he played in Ariane from Naxos the role of Harlequin and he will appear in Verdi’s Don Carlos and La Traviata at HGO next season.Giancarlo Monsalve, Rafał Siwek, in Verdi’s Don Carlo. In the Houston Grand Opera Studio's production of Cosi fan tutte on March 11-13, he performed the role of Gugliemo. Since August 2010, he is a soloist of the Houston Grand Opera, where he already appeared in Madame Butterfly in October and in Dead Man Walking in January-February 2011.

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Winner of both the Bella Voce and Ippolitov-Ivanov competition, he was the principal soloist in the Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble from 2005 to 2009, with whom he appeared in concert in China, Poland, Morocco, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Turkey, Germany, Slovakia, Belgium, India and Canada.Īs a finalist in the “Competizione dell’opera” in Bremen, Germany, he was invited to Bremen Opera Theater to appear in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in 2009.

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He continued his studies at the International School of Vocal Arts in Moscow. Dyakov graduated from the Gnessins College of Music in 2004, where he performed the role of Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Boris Dyakov was born in Moscow in 1982 and began his musical studies as a violinist.











Houston grand opera don carlos