Organization

Bass-baritone (+3)

Michael Nagl

A monk

Soprano

Olga Busuioc

Elizabeth of Valois

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Lotte de Beer

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Christof Hetzer

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+2)

Alex Brok

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Manuel Pujol

Dramaturge

Franz-Erdmann Meyer-Herder

Dramaturge (+1)

Peter te Nuyl

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Valerio Galli

Costume designer

Bass (+2)

Adam Palka

Philip II

Tenor (+2)

David Junghoon Kim

Don Carlos

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Diana Haller

Princess Eboli

Natasha Wilson

Thibault

Soprano (+2)

Alma Ruoqi Sun

Heavenly Voice

Alberto Robert

The Count of Lerma

Royal Herald

Orchestra

Stuttgart State Orchestra

Stuttgart Opera

Rebekka Stange

Chorus

Chorus of the Stuttgart State Opera

Opernhaus

Baritone (+5)

Johannes Kammler

Marquis of Posa

Bass (+3)

Gianluca Buratto

The Grand Inquisitor

Baritone (+2)

Peter Paul

Ein Holzfäller

Kyung-Won Yu

Teacher (+5)

Liang Li

Baritone (+3)

Alexey Bogdanchikov

Who grants us freedom of thought? For Giuseppe Verdi even more than for Friedrich Schiller a question that should not be asked purely under the tyranny of kings: „After all, in this drama are neither historical facts nor Shakespearian truth to be found”, said Verdi about his opera Don Carlos, when he revised the composition yet again in the 1880s. Verdi’s interpretation of Schiller’s libertarian drama about the Spanish successor not only focuses on the fate of monarchs, but mostly on the kind of totalitarianism that understands people as material – long before the 20th century’s terror became a reality. Dutch director Lotte de Beer projects the story into a not too distant future where religiously radical tendencies prevail and where the terror of the past might experience a revival.

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