Among the works of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos is distinguished by its compositional genesis, history and style. Taken from a play by Schiller, was a great success with the public especially for the psychological insight of the characters, the plot of great effect and for the musical innovations.
It 's a tragedy that struck me very much for the humanity of the characters, the fate to which they must bend to the loneliness of each character.
E 'an opera in five acts, performed for the first time in Paris in 1867 and contains the drama of a man and not only.
Charles falls in love with his stepmother, Elizabeth of Valois, daughter of Henry II of France, who married his father, Philip II of Spain as a result of political agreements. We are facing a historical figure of great political stature if we think the Catholic monarchy of Philip II was for the entire second half of the sixteenth century to the more powerful European policy. Charles died in 1568 in reality only 23 years of illness, but the legend wants to compete with his father to love the same woman. Verdi gives the historical fact of a new suit and the whole story unfolds around the drama of love. The characters are very thick, beginning with Philip II, Charles V, the investigator, the friend of Charles, Marquis of Posa, the Countess of Eboli, Tybalt. The discovery of the love between the two characters is in the forest of Fontainebleau, thanks to the night. Then immediately after the protagonist notes the discovery that she is destined instead to his father. Philip finds himself falling in love and their loneliness unspeakable, in the third act, where, through a monologue, reminiscent of their falling in love, wondering if she had ever loved (She never loved me). Charles, in pain, then take to heart the fate of the people of Flanders to clash with his father who handed him over to the Inquisition. Very strong concept of friendship, one that binds to Count Carlo di Posa has a big role as well the character of the Countess d'Eboli, but also the friendship between Philip and Posa in which the son sees that he wanted . The minds of the characters emerge with great skill thanks also to the music that has a revelatory function. Carlos will have to defend themselves in front of the Inquisitor for defying his father and the shadow of the parent and succumbs passively accept what fate ordains and prepare for him.
loneliness invades father and son: the father is not safe to love Elizabeth and must submit to the Church as well as Charles must surrender to that love, albeit unrequited, because it is granted. Charles is a loser hero and shows its weakness by reversing his dream.
image work is the scene of the third act where dell'autodafè alternating joy and terror, life and death. In the three main figures of Philip, the investigator and Charles V, the three sides of a single role, that of the natural father, and spiritual reasons oedipal parent is involved with a projection of power and conflict and indissoluble affection.
The king is a person unrelated to the sensitivity of the child, who does not know deeply and does not assume any of his emotions nor of its weaknesses. A man of great political and fascinating, so much so that Elizabeth I to say, it was the only man ever who could marry, but not as good as in private life: he betrays him to kill because Posa its ideals, we shall submit to the will of the Church, as well as to fail in his private life and to have a bad relationship with his son. The reason of state is the true protagonist of the work where all the feelings recede to make way for a world governed by politics. E 'opera where love comes up against with jealousy, with a sense of honor, with unrequited love and suffering when it is returned or when the inability to produce manifest indifference.
E 'work from the content we see that modern players when we allow ourselves to be entangled interests and venal aspects left to languish our emotional and sentimental. If Philip II had known the suffering of the child and if he had taken charge, would not seek the love of a young girl who could be his daughter, to seal a political agreement, as Charles V, if he had led his son Philip to grow fast and in the name of politics, he could live a paternity better instead of just being great European politician of his time. Sometimes we find ourselves living situations that are nothing but the legacy of what we leave and we are forced to cover wounds and wounds that heal and therefore difficult to succumb to our dreams. Happiness is built day by day and does not happen by chance. For happiness means an interest in what happens around us and not only within us, as they are two paths in parallel where one completes the other. Only by measuring what happens in our time and next to us, that we can project into the future, otherwise life is a succession of events that seem to have fallen from the sky!
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Among the works of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos is distinguished by its compositional genesis, history and style. Taken from a play by Schiller, was a great success with the public especially for the psychological insight of the characters, the plot of great effect and for the musical innovations. 
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