Don Carlo

Don Carlo

204 mins | Oct. 12, 1985

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink memorably directs a superb cast that includes Ileana Cotrubas at the height of her powers and Luis Lima, unequalled in his tortured introspection, in the title role. (5-act version, sung in Italian)

Don Carlo

204 mins | Oct. 12, 1985

Don Carlo
A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink memorably directs a superb cast that includes Ileana Cotrubas at the height of her powers and Luis Lima, unequalled in his tortured introspection, in the title role. (5-act version, sung in Italian)
Producers
Original title Don Carlo
Directors Brian Large
Writers

Cast

Luis Lima

as Don Carlo

Ileana Cotrubas

as Elisabetta di Valois

Giorgio Zancanaro

as Rodrigo

Robert Lloyd

as Filippo II

Bruna Baglioni

as Princess Eboli

Joseph Rouleau

as Grand Inquisitor

Matthew Best

as A monk

Patricia Parker

as Tebaldo

John Dobson

as Count of Lerma

Lola Biagioni

as A voice from heaven

Alan Jones

as A royal herald

Romayne Grigorova

as Countess of Aremburg (silent acting role)