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Don Carlo, IGV 7, Act V: "Sì, per sempre!" (Filippo II, Il Grande Inquisitore, Elisabetta, Don Carlo, Un Frate) by Covent Garden Orchestra album cover

Don Carlo, IGV 7, Act V: "Sì, per sempre!" (Filippo II, Il Grande Inquisitore, Elisabetta, Don Carlo, Un Frate)

by Covent Garden Orchestra

About This Song

About "Don Carlo, IGV 7, Act V: "Sì, per sempre!" (Filippo II, Il Grande Inquisitore, Elisabetta, Don Carlo, Un Frate)" by Covent Garden Orchestra

Filippo, the Inquisitor, and a ghostly friar converge upon the lovers as the opera's final chord tolls. The ensemble freezes into a tableau of judgment—Verdi leaves us suspended between earthly power and the eternal, with no easy resolution.