Also successful was Alexei Tanovitsky, debuting as the mysterious Monk, who in this production was indeed Charles V, watching by his own tomb as his son Philip kills his grandson Carlo (a more convincing ending than Carlo’s being spirited away into the depths of the monastery) - by Anne Midgette, The Washington Post.
The Met's new Don Carlo
Also successful was Alexei Tanovitsky, debuting as the mysterious Monk, who in this production was indeed Charles V, watching by his own tomb as his son Philip kills his grandson Carlo (a more convincing ending than Carlo’s being spirited away into the depths of the monastery).
Anne Midgette,
The Washington Post
