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Fabrizio Ventura

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The Modena version of Don Carlo, performed in Modena itself – the revised five-act version, with seasoned veterans and outstanding young singers pulling together as oneVideo of a new production of Don Carlo at the Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, the house that bears the great tenor’s name. To see an opera on this scale in a medium-sized theatre of around a thousand seats is a real luxury.Don Carlo was originally staged at the Paris Opra in five acts, but the version usually heard today is the four-act revision Verdi made for La Scala in 1884. In 1886 Verdi produced a revised five-act version that restored the first act to the four-act score, and because it was used for a performance in Modena at the end of 1886 it has come to be known as the “Modena version”. This performance was given at the same Modena theatre some 126 years later.The biggest name is Giacomo Prestia as Filipp