Verdi: Don Carlo (2013)

Verdi: Don Carlo (2013)

Verdi's Don Carlo at the Salzburg Opera Festival 2013-08-31 280 Min. PG-13
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Overview

Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three versions of this opera, the French 1867 version, the revised Italian four Act Don Carlo 1884, plus the Modena version 1886. This version is the 1884 version with Act One reinstated, as well as the original beginning of Act 2. To complicate matters the French opera was simply translated into Italian, and then the changes were made. There is an even newer edition completed in 1980 by Ricordi, and others floating around as well.

Cast

Matti Salminen is Filippo II
Filippo II
Jonas Kaufmann is Don Carlo
Thomas Hampson is Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa
Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa
Anja Harteros is Elisabetta di Valois
Elisabetta di Valois
Eric Halfvarson is Il Grande Inquisitore
Il Grande Inquisitore
Ekaterina Semenchuk is La Principessa Eboli
La Principessa Eboli
Robert Lloyd is Un Frate (Carlo V)
Un Frate (Carlo V)
Maria Celeng is Tebaldo
Sen Guo is Una voce dal cielo
Una voce dal cielo
Benjamin Bernheim is Il Conte di Lerma / Un Araldo Reale
Il Conte di Lerma / Un Araldo Reale
Antonio Pappano is Conductor - Self
Conductor - Self