Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlos
Opera in five acts, in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
“16th-century Spain. State and church are engaged in a ruthless struggle for dominance over the people. The greatest victim in all of this is none other than the king’s son, the prince Don Carlos. He is the one who dares to love, to step up for the freedom of the oppressed people and to oppose both the church and the state, shaking up their system of power… Verdi is the only composer, bar none, for whom individual freedom could have become so important. With this opera, he paints a frightening picture of human civilisation.” So says Frank Hilbrich, the German director of Don Carlos, the work to open Christian Spirit Festival which can be considered the essence of the thematic season.
Details
- Location
- Erkel Theatre
- Date
- May 18, 2020
- Start time
- 18:00
- End time
- 21:30
Cast
- Conductor
- Balázs Kocsár
- Philip II
- András Palerdi
- Don Carlos
- Mykhailo Malafii
- Rodrigo, marquis of Posa
- Csaba Szegedi
- Elisabeth of Valois
- Anna Shapovalova
- Princess Eboli
- Erika Gál
- The Grand Inquisitor
- Krisztián Cser
- A monk
- Géza Gábor
- Tebaldo
- Melinda Heiter
- The Count of Lerma
- József Mukk
- A voice from Heaven
- Zita Váradi
- Royal herald
- N.N.
Credits
- Original libretto after the drama by Schiller
- Camille du Locle / Joseph Méry
- Original French-language libretto translated into Italian by
- Angelo Zanardini / Achille de Lauzières
- Director
- Frank Hilbrich
- Set designer
- Volker Thiele
- Costume designer
- Gabriele Rupprecht
- Dramaturg
- Bernd Krispin
- English surtitles
- Arthur Roger Crane
- Chorus director
- Gábor Csiki
- Premiere
- May 16, 2020