Saturday 10Mar18
Wednesday 14Mar18
Saturday 17Mar18

DON CARLO (VERDI)

3 Shows
10 Mar 19:30 h. - 17 Mar 19:30 h.
Length
3 hours
Opera
 Ópera de Tenerife (Sala Sinfónica)
 From 20€

Don Carlo is a five-act opera with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto in French by François Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle. It is based on Schiller’s Dom Karlos, Infant von Spanien. The premiere of the French version (Don Carlos) took place on 11 March 1867 at Le Peletier del Théâtre de l’Académie Impériale de Musique de París (currently L’Opéra National). The Italian premiere was held at Royal Italian Opera (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London) on 4 June of the same year.

Of Verdi’s operas, this is the one to have undergone more changes, the last one being in 1886, the so called “Modena Version”. Jealousy, betrayal, father-son conflicts and love trio. This is what Verdi took from one of the main exponents of German Romanticism, F. von Schiller, adding drama to the story of king Filippo (Felipe II) and his son Carlos (Don Carlo), who falls in love with his father’s wife, Isabel de Valois (Elisabetta), and whose lives are marked by the Grand Inquisitor. Schiller’s mark is evident in the character’s psychology, highlighted by Verdi’s music and the issues raised: a song to freedom, friendship and love; the tensions between public and private life or between the Church and the State; power and rebellion, passion, idealism, fanaticism or tyranny. Vocally, Elisabetta’s musical moment “S’ancor si piange in cielo” is outstanding.

Subtitles in English and Spanish

Musical Director: Jader Bignamini

Stage Management: Cesare Lievi

Stage and costume designer: Maurizio Balò

Tenerife Symphony Orchestra

Ópera de Tenerife Choir

Choirmaster: Carmen Cruz

Coproduction with Teatro Regio di Parma

Felipe II: Riccardo Zanellato

Don Carlo: José Bros 

Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa: Simone Alberghini

The Grand Inquisitor: Mariano Buccino

Tebaldo: Nina Solodovnikova

A friar: Lorenzo Malagola Barbieri

Isabel de Valois: Yolanda Auyanet

Princess of Eboli: María José Montiel

Count of Lerma/royal herald: David Astorga

A heavenly voice: Gloria Giurgola

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Sat 10Mar18
Time
19:30
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Wed 14Mar18
Time
19:30
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Sat 17Mar18
Time
19:30
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