Verdi: Don Carlo backdrop

Verdi: Don Carlo 2013 Directed by Agnes Méth , Peter Stein , ... Don Carlo

Verdi's Don Carlo at the Salzburg Opera Festival

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.

Country Italy
Language Italian
Spoken Language Italian
Gnere Music
Production Company Unitel Classica
Release Date 31 August 2013
280 mins
Cast
Matti Salminen Filippo II
Jonas Kaufmann Don Carlo
Thomas Hampson Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa
Anja Harteros Elisabetta di Valois
Eric Halfvarson Il Grande Inquisitore
Ekaterina Semenchuk La Principessa Eboli
Robert Lloyd Un Frate (Carlo V)
Maria Celeng Tebaldo
Sen Guo Una voce dal cielo
Benjamin Bernheim Il Conte di Lerma / Un Araldo Reale
Antonio Pappano Conductor - Self