Don Carlo

Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos, Infante of Spain) by Friedrich Schiller. In addition, it has been noted by David Kimball that the Fontainebleau scene and auto da fé “were the most substantial of several incidents borrowed from a contemporary play on Philip II by Eugène Cormon”.The opera is most often performed in Italian translation, usually under the title Don Carlo.

LOCANDINA

Conductor Myung-Whun Chung
Director Robert Carsen
Director’s Assistant and Choreography Marco Berriel
Sests Radu Boruzescu
Sets Assistant Serena Rocco
Costumes Petra Reinhardt
Lighting Robert Carsen and Peter Van Praet

CAST

Filippo II Alex Esposito
Don Carlo Piero Pretti
Rodrigue (Rodrigo), Marquis of Posa Julian Kim
The Grand Inquisitor  Marco Spotti
A monk Leonard Bernad
Elisabeth of Valois Maria Agresta
Princess Eboli Veronica Simeoni
Thibault (Tebaldo), page to Elisabeth Barbara Massaro
The Count of Lerma Luca Casalin
Royal Herald Matteo Roma
A Voice from Heaven Gilda Fiume

Flemish deputies
Szymon Chojnaki, William Corrò, Matteo Ferrara, Armando Gabba, Claudio Levantino, Andrea Patucelli