BBC Proms 2020 Season - Haitink conducts Verdi's Don Carlos (1996) (320kbps .mp3)



In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. First appearing at the festival in 1966, Bernard Haitink gave his final Proms performance – his 90th! – in September 2019, on his last week before retirement. In 1996 he brought to the Proms forces from the Royal Opera (Covent Garden) – of which he was Music Director at the time – for a performance of Verdi’s Don Carlos. Perhaps the composer’s greatest opera, its principal characters are entangled in a web cast by the Church and State. This Proms performance features a fine cast including Olga Borodina and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, as well as future Proms favourite Roderick Williams.



01. Verdi - Don Carlos, Acts I&II  (1886 version)

01a. Introduction to Don Carlos Acts I&II

01b. Verdi - Don Carlos, commentary after Act II

02. Verdi - Don Carlos, Act III

02a. Verdi - Don Carlos, commentary after Act III

03. Verdi - Don Carlos, Acts IV&V



Roberto Scandiuzzi (King Philip II)

Richard Margison (Don Carlos)

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Rodrigo)

Robert Lloyd (Grand Inquisitor)

Sylvie Valayre (Elisabeth de Valois)

Olga Borodina (Princess Eboli)

Susan Parry (Thibault)

Robin Leggate (Count of Lerma)

Sorin Coliban (Old Monk)

Mary Plazas (Voice from Heaven)

Roderick Williams (Royal Herald)

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Bernard Haitink (conductor)



Presented by Petroc Trelawny



First broadcast:  BBC Proms 1996, 20 July



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