Verdi: Don Carlo

Verdi: Don Carlo

280 mins | Music | Aug. 31, 2013

Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three versions of this opera, the French 1867 version, the revised Italian four Act Don Carlo 1884, plus the Modena version 1886. This version is the 1884 version with Act One reinstated, as well as the original beginning of Act 2. To complicate matters the French opera was simply translated into Italian, and then the changes were made. There is an even newer edition completed in 1980 by Ricordi, and others floating around as well.

Verdi: Don Carlo

280 mins | Music | Aug. 31, 2013

Verdi: Don Carlo
Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three versions of this opera, the French 1867 version, the revised Italian four Act Don Carlo 1884, plus the Modena version 1886. This version is the 1884 version with Act One reinstated, as well as the original beginning of Act 2. To complicate matters the French opera was simply translated into Italian, and then the changes were made. There is an even newer edition completed in 1980 by Ricordi, and others floating around as well.
Producers Unitel Classica
Original title Don Carlo
Directors Peter Stein, Agnes Méth, Leopold Knötzl
Writers Angelo Zanardini, Achille de Lauzières, Joseph Méry, Friedrich Schiller, Camille du Locle

Cast

Matti Salminen

as Filippo II

Jonas Kaufmann

as Don Carlo

Thomas Hampson

as Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa

Anja Harteros

as Elisabetta di Valois

Eric Halfvarson

as Il Grande Inquisitore

Ekaterina Semenchuk

as La Principessa Eboli

Robert Lloyd

as Un Frate (Carlo V)

Maria Celeng

as Tebaldo

Sen Guo

as Una voce dal cielo

Benjamin Bernheim

as Il Conte di Lerma / Un Araldo Reale

Antonio Pappano

as Conductor - Self