Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo intertwines family tragedy and historical panorama. This grand opera premiered in 1867 and was repeatedly reworked in the following decades. In the four-act Italian version, the abysses of Spanish absolutism open up even more dramatically: arbitrary rule, an emaciated people, fanatical autodafés – and the experience that friendship can be stronger than the hated bonds of blood.
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Don Carlo
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Don Carlo
Based on Schiller's "dramatic poem", Verdi focuses on the inner conflicts between political duty and personal desire.
In Marco Arturo Marelli's production, this struggle is condensed into an archetypal spectacle.
Such a drama needs charismatic voices; this season, singers such as German bass Tareq Nazmi as Filippo II, Ève-Maud Hubeaux as Eboli, Adriana González as Elisabetta and Nicola Alaimo as Posa are waiting to be rediscovered. Najmiddin Mavlyanov takes on the title role.
Dan Ettinger, who has already been general music director in Mannheim and Tel Aviv, conducts at the Deutsche Oper for the first time.
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With English surtitles
Participating artists
Tareq Nazmi
Najmiddin Mavlyanov
Nicola Alaimo
Taras Shtonda
Mark Kurmanbayev
Adriana González
Ève-Maud Hubeaux
Marlen Bieber
Thomas Cilluffo
Lilit Davtyan
Vincenzo Neri
Young Choi
Tom Nicholson
Christopher Humbert Jr.
Byung Gil Kim
Padraic Rowan
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Michele Spotti
Marco Arturo Marelli
Dagmar Niefind
Marco Medved
