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 | | After the sessions, he brought the work to the Proms (with Valayre replacing Gorchakova as Elisabeth): it was an exhilarating performance, more exciting than Haitink’s direction of the French recension at the Royal Opera. |
 | | Pappano also chooses some of the alternative settings, notably in the Posa-Philippe duet in Act 2 and the farewell encounter of Elisabeth and Carlos in Act 5, amendments that Verdi made for the neglected 1872 Naples revision. |
 | | He is as able to encompass the delicacies of the Veil Song and the succeeding exchanges as he is to purvey the grand, tragic passion of Elisabeth and Carlos in Act 2, the intricacies and changes of feeling in the colloquy between Rodrigue and Philippe, the terrible menace of the Grand Inquisitor. |
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