Don Carlo

Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe

Librettist/Text Author: Du Locle, Camille

Librettist/Text Author: Mery, Francois-Joseph

Conductor: Oren, Daniel

Orchestra: Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini

Chorus: Parma Teatro Regio Chorus

Chorus Master: Faggiani, Martino

A monk: Lim, Simon

A voice from Heaven: Bucciarelli, Marina

Don Carlo: Bros, Jose

Elisabeth de Valois: Farnocchia, Serena

Infante of Spain: Bros, Jose

Marquis of Posa: Stoyanov, Vladimir

Page to Elisabeth: Bini, Lavinia

Philip II: Pertusi, Michele

Princess Eboli: Cornetti, Marianne

Rodrigo: Stoyanov, Vladimir

Royal herald: Bini, Lavinia

Tebaldo: Bini, Lavinia

The Count of Lerma: Bini, Lavinia

The Great Inquisitor: Orlov, Ievgen

The King of Spain: Pertusi, Michele

Set Designer: Balo, Maurizio

Costume Designer: Balo, Maurizio

Lighting Designer: Borelli, Andrea

Stage Director: Lievi, Cesare

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Venue: Teatro Regio, Parma

Playing Time: 03:02:34

Catalogue Number: 37776

UPC: 8007144377762

Libretto

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First performed in French at the Paris Opera in 1867, Don Carlo is in may ways an amazingly innovative work. The opera seems to underline Giuseppe Verdi's shift from the Manichean division between good and evil, which had been a clear, structural element of his dramaturgy up to that point in his career.

In this opera, Verdi assembles all his mainstay music theatre themes: power, with its honours and burdens; the contrasts of impossible love; the conflict between father and son; and an oppressed people demanding freedom.

Verdi radically revised the score in 1883, using an Italian libretto and reducing the opera from five acts to four. The popularity of Don Carlo has grown unremittingly ever since, with today's critics almost unanimously recognising it as one of Verdi's greatest masterpieces, an opera that continues to reveal new gems.

Daniel Oren if fully in control on the podium, ensuring unanimity between orchestra and singers. The maestro softens the dark tones of the score, which are well reflected in the visuals, choosing instead to emphasise the various changes of mood.