Don Carlo

Don Carlo

Music | Feb. 21, 1980

Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, family squabbles and intrigue. The Spanish Inquisition tries to exert its influence. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where heretics are to be burned at the stake

Don Carlo

Music | Feb. 21, 1980

Don Carlo
Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, family squabbles and intrigue. The Spanish Inquisition tries to exert its influence. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where heretics are to be burned at the stake
Producers
Original title Don Carlo
Directors Kirk Browning, John Dexter
Writers Joseph Méry, Friedrich Schiller, Camille du Locle

Cast

Vasile Moldoveanu

as Don Carlo

Renata Scotto

as Elizabeth of Valois

Sherrill Milnes

as Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa

Tatiana Troyanos

as Princess Eboli

Paul Plishka

as King Philip

Jerome Hines

as The Grand Inquisitor

Therese Brandson

as Celestial Voice

John Cheek

as Friar

Betsy Norden

as Tebaldo

Peter Sliker

as Forester

Dana Talley

as Count of Lerma

Barbara Greene

as Countess of Aremberg

Timothy Jenkins

as Herald