Verdi: Don Carlo

Verdi: Don Carlo — Plot

Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty between the two kingdoms. They meet and fall in love – but no sooner have they declared their love than news comes that the terms of the treaty have changed: Elizabeth is to marry Carlos’s father Philip instead. Politics and religion are dangerously entwined in Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo. Performed on November 30th, 2016, at the Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg.

• Release date
• October 6, 2018
• Runtime
• 179 min
• Genres
• Drama, History, Music
• Director
• François Roussillon

Verdi: Don Carlo — Cast

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Andrea Carè Don Carlo Stephen Milling Filippo II Elza van den Heever Elisabetta di Valois Tassis Christoyannis Posa

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Elena Zhidkova La Principessa Eboli

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Ante Jerkunica Il Grande Inquisitor

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Daniele Callegari Conductor