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Singer

Bass

Ildar Abdrazakov

Philip II

Tenor

Jonas Kaufmann

Don Carlos

Pavel Černoch

Baritone

Ludovic Tézier

Marquis of Posa

Dmitry Belosselskiy

The Grand Inquisitor

Soprano

Sonya Yoncheva

Elizabeth of Valois

Hibla Gerzmava

Mezzo-soprano

Elīna Garanča

Princess Eboli

Ekaterina Gubanova

Eve-Maud Hubeaux

Thibault

Silga Tīruma

Heavenly Voice

Julien Dran

The Count of Lerma

François Piolino

Hyun-Jong Roh

Royal Herald

Krzysztof Bączyk

A monk

Tiago Matos

Michal Partyka

Mikhail Timoshenko

Tomasz Kumiega

Andrzej Filończyk

Daniel Giulianini

Conductor

Philippe Jordan

Stage director

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Set designer

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Video designer

Denis Guéguin

Lighting designer

Felice Ross

Choreographer

Claude Bardouil

Chorus master

José Luis Basso

Dramaturge

Christian Longchamp

Opéra National de Paris

French

Don Carlos (French version)

Paris

France

Opéra Bastille

If there exists an opera that defies boundaries at every level, be they dramatic or dramaturgical, it is certainly Verdi’s Don Carlos, a work by an Italian composer created in French, and in which the climate of war with Spain and the melancholy of human beings draw our attention to the fate to Flanders. Politics, religion, history and psychoanalysis are all entwined here, increasingly exacerbating the fears and taboos between the protagonists. Krzysztof Warlikowski strips down a tragedy haunted by ghosts, and places the intimate at the heart of an imaginary fresco truer than history itself. Along with Philippe Jordan, he reveals to the public the very first version of this great five-act opera: the version modified by Verdi himself for the work’s first performance in 1867. Echoing this historic version, the Paris Opera will be scheduling the five-act version of Don Carlo in Italian in 2019.

Don Carlos Verdi

English

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Production booklet

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