Verdi Don Carlos - Auto da Fe

Maria Pia Piscitelli as Elisabetta and Homero Perez Miranda as Filippo II sing in the Auto da Fe scene of Verdi's Don Carlo at the Teatro Municipal in Santigo, Chile

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[pjdonagh]

@yumyumwhatzohai You are quite correct of course and I confess to teasing in order to ellicit a response. My point with regard to religious fanatiscism I still contend is a valid one though.

[yumyumwhatzohai]

@pjdonagh Sorry, but Verdi was not atheist, he was irreligious and anti clerical, but not atheist, he was a theistic agnostic to say the least.

[coryisawake]

Homero Miranda sounds magnificent!

[notruf34]

What stupid comment! here the important think is to rate the music, acting, set design, performance, not religión. The plot of Don Carlos is simple but Verdi was able to give magic through some wonderful music. In fact, Verdi was faced with the ecclesiastical hierarchy, NOT Christianity enough to hear his requiem, one of the religious sentiment musics with more than I can imagine.

[pjdonagh]

Ahh... the religious wars continue down the centuries and into the channels of You Tube!! It seems to me, an athiest, that if Verdi, also an athiest, is making any direct point here then it must have something to do with the absurdity and evil that is usually associated with religious fanatiscism.

[coryisawake]

Precisely!

[art724]

You are of course entitled to believe what you want. However, the Church has never apologised for the Inquisition. Pope John Paul II apologised for the actions of individual Catholics saying that the Church is populated by sinners as well as saints. During the time of Philip II, it was a crime for a priest to say Mass in England, punishible by death. A hundred years later, my wife's ancestor, Martha Carrier, was hung at Salem as a witch by other protestants. Protestants have done much worse.

[MastersoftheOpera]

I still think that the angel is the only warm and compassionate voice in this scene..the Catholic Church has apologized for the Inquisition because so many innocent people died falsely accused of heresy. The heretics were not monsters. It was just that they werent Catholic. It was almost like a dictatorship back then. If you werent Catholic, you were a traitor. I don't believe that there were "witches" then. Gypsies arent witches. For me, Verdi is showing the inhumanity of the Inquisition

[art724]

The voice of the Angel welcomes the heretics to Heaven because, in His infinite mercy, heretics who are sincere in their beliefs are saved. This does not mean that their execution was sinful. The Inquisitors were also sincere in their beliefs. Do not draw the conclusion that the Angel is condeming the Inquisition. The voice is for the heretics benefit alone. But I always wonder how the heretics reacted when they got to Heaven and discovered that they were, in fact, heretics.

[MastersoftheOpera]

What I'd like to know is how the voice of the Angel (a voice of mercy and kindess and the only holy thing/closet to God in the opera) is not heard by the Inquistor an the people standing around doing nothing. We hear the voice but do they ? They go on doing their thing eventhough God (using a woman's voice) is basically implying how sinful it is what they are doing ?