Name: Don Carlo (Italian version)
Start: 2008-12-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-01-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro alla Scala

Organization

Zanger

Baritone

Thomas Johannes Mayer

Rodrigo

Bass

Matti Salminen

Il Grande Inquisitore

Anatolij Kotscherga

Diogenes Randes

Un Frate

Gábor Bretz

Petri Lindroos

Soprano

Fiorenza Cedolins

Elisabetta di Valois

Micaela Carosi

Mezzo-soprano

Dolora Zajick

La Principessa Eboli

Anna Smirnova

Carla Di Censo

Tebaldo

Roberta Canzian

Tenor

Cristiano Cremonini

Il Conte di Lerma

Ki Hyun Kim

Carlo Bosi

Un Araldo reale

Julia Borchert

Voce dal cielo

Irena Bespalovaite

Filippo Bettoschi

Davide Pelissero

Ernesto Panariello

Chae Jun Lim

Alessandro Spina

Luciano Montanaro

Dirigent

Daniele Gatti

Regisseur

Stéphane Braunschweig

Kostuum ontwerper

Thibault Vancraenenbroeck

Set designer

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Filippo II

Giuseppe Filianoti

Don Carlo

Stuart Neill

Dalibor Jenis

Licht ontwerper

Marion Hewlett

Teatro alla Scala

Others

Coro del Teatro alla Scala

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Don Carlo (Italian version) -  (Don Carlo)

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Don Carlos, a grand opera à la française, was composed by Verdi to a French-language libretto based on a tragedy by the great Schiller, and saw its premiere in French at the Paris Opera in 1867. But it went through more revisions and versions than any other Verdi work, and it is the Italian version, Don Carlo, that is most commonly performed today, as in this opening night blockbuster at La Scala from 2008! Stéphane Braunschweig—who has also garnered renown for his Ring cycle in Aix-en-Provence, as well as his Jenůfa in Paris—brings ample dramatic flair to the boldly lit and sumptuously costumed stage production, while bass Ferruccio Furlanetto commands the stage as Philip and tenor Stuart Neill brings regal bearing to the title role.

In 1559, France and Spain are negotiating a hard-fought peace; according to the terms of the treaty, the king's heir Carlos is set to marry Elisabeth of Valois, daughter of Henri II. The opera's intrigue deviates from the historical account: Carlos, in love with his stepmother, is desired by his father's mistress...

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