Organization

Bas-bariton (+3)

Michael Nagl

Un moine

Sopraan

Olga Busuioc

Elisabeth de Valois

Regisseur

Regisseur (+1)

Lotte de Beer

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Christof Hetzer

Licht ontwerper

Licht ontwerper (+2)

Alex Brok

Koor meester

Koor meester (+2)

Manuel Pujol

Dramaturg

Franz-Erdmann Meyer-Herder

Dramaturg (+1)

Peter te Nuyl

Dirigent

Dirigent (+1)

Valerio Galli

Kostuum ontwerper

Bas (+2)

Adam Palka

Philippe II

Tenor (+2)

David Junghoon Kim

Don Carlos

Mezzosopraan (+5)

Diana Haller

La princesse Eboli

Natasha Wilson

Thibault

Sopraan (+2)

Alma Ruoqi Sun

Une voix céleste

Alberto Robert

Le comte de Lerme

Un héraut royal

Orchestra

Staatsorchesters Stuttgart

Staatsoper Stuttgart

Rebekka Stange

Chorus

Staatsopernchor der Oper Stuttgart

Opernhaus

Bariton (+5)

Johannes Kammler

Rodrigue

Bas (+3)

Gianluca Buratto

Le Grand Inquisiteur

Bariton (+2)

Peter Paul

Ein Holzfäller

Kyung-Won Yu

Leraar (+5)

Liang Li

Bariton (+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.

Frans