The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo

215 mins | Music | Dec. 11, 2010

Family jealousy, threat of rebellion, political back-stabbing and the Inquisition weigh heavy on the court of King Phillip II. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where a number of heretics are to be burnt at the stake.

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo

215 mins | Music | Dec. 11, 2010

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo
Family jealousy, threat of rebellion, political back-stabbing and the Inquisition weigh heavy on the court of King Phillip II. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where a number of heretics are to be burnt at the stake.
Producers
Original title The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo
Directors Gary Halvorson, Nicholas Hytner
Writers Joseph Méry, Friedrich Schiller, Camille du Locle

Cast

Roberto Alagna

as Don Carlo

Marina Poplavskaya

as Elisabeth of Valois

Layla Claire

as Tebaldo - Elisabeth's page

Eduardo Valdes

as The Count of Lerma

Simon Keenlyside

as Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa

Ferruccio Furlanetto

as Philip II - King of Spain

Anna Smirnova

as The Princess Eboli

Anne Dyas

as The Countess of Aremberg

Alexei Tanovitsky

as A Friar

Eric Halfvarson

as The Grand Inquisitor

Jennifer Check

as A Celestial Voice

Donovan Singletary

as Flemish Deputy

Christopher Schaldenbrand

as Flemish Deputy

Joshua Benaim

as Flemish Deputy

Tyler Simpson

as Flemish Deputy

Keith Harris

as Flemish Deputy

Eric Jordan

as Flemish Deputy