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Royal Danish Opera

Orchestra

Royal Danish Orchestra

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Jordan de Souza

Stage director

Stage director (+11)

Davide Livermore

Set designer

Giò Forma

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Mariana Fracasso

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Antonio Castro

Video

Video (+1)

D-Wok

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+1)

Steven Moore

Chorus

The Royal Danish Opera Chorus

Royal Danish Theatre

Bass (+1)

Goderdzi Janelidze

Philip II

Tenor (+2)

Matthew White

Don Carlo

Baritone (+3)

Gihoon Kim

Rodrigo

Soprano (+2)

Gisela Stille

Elisabeth of Valois

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Aytaj Shikhalizada

Princess Eboli

Bass (+5)

Roberto Scandiuzzi

The Grand Inquisitor

Volodymyr Tyshkov

Bass (+2)

Kyungil Ko

A Monk

Tenor

Jacob Skov Andersen

Royal Herald

Tenor (+1)

Jens Christian Tvilum

The Count of Lerma

Tae Jeong Hwang

Soprano (+1)

Marlene Metzger

Thibault

Soprano

Barbro Cítron

Elmas Zeynep Mehmet

A Voice from Heaven

Isla MacEwan

Bass (+3)

Stephen Milling

Baritone (+5)

Jens Søndergaard

Chiara Isotton

Anthony Ciaramitaro

Emanuela Pascu

Verdi's masterpiece on love and duty, performed by exceptional singers.

One of Verdi's unparalleled masterpieces, Don Carlo, is presented in a visually rich, new staging by one of Europe's most genre-redefining directors, the Italian Davide Livermore, alongside the designer team Giò Forma.

In the tragic Spanish love triangle involving Don Carlo, his beloved Elisabetha and Carlo's father Fillippo II, the young lovers' romance must be sacrificed to ensure peace through a forced marriage between Fillippo II and Elisabetha.

The tale of love, friendship, idealism, politics and duty unfolds in Verdi's work against the backdrop of the Inquisition's brutal and oppressive regime. Davide Livermore and the Giò Forma design team bring the story closer to our times by setting it against the persecution of political opponents under Franco's dictatorship. In this intense contemporary context, the past merges with a recognisable present in a spectacular set design, blending classic and expressionistic moods inspired by the Spanish painters Goya and Velázquez with lavish and cool aesthetics.

Verdi's dramatically intense music is interpreted by powerful voices: Stephen Milling makes a guest appearance as Fillippo. The American tenor Matthew White portrays the tormented Carlo, and the Royal Danish Opera's Reumert-awarded Verdi interpreter, Gisela Stille, is Carlo's lost love, Elisabetha.

Don Carlo is performed in Italian with Danish and English supertitles.

In collaboration with the Norwegian National Opera and the Finnish National Opera.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

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