The Teatro Real begins its 19/20 season with Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi, which returns fourteen years after its last presentation, in May of 2005. A magnificent staging proposal by David McVicar, accompanied by conductor Nicola Luisotti, (principal conductor invited by the Teatro Real), who will lead three different top level casts with singers such as Ainhoa Arteta, María Agresta, Francesco Meli or Silvia Tro Santafé, among others.
Opera in five acts.
Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the work Don Carlos, Infant Von Spanien (1787) by Friedrich Schiller, translated from Italian by Achille de Lauzières and Angelo Zanardini
Premiered at the Paris' Opera on the 11th of March, 1867 (original version in French) and the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on the 10th of January, 1884 (reduced version in Italian).
Premiered at the Teatro Real on the 20th of February of 1912.
Production of the Oper Frankfurt based on the version in five acts in Italian.
Premiered on the 26th of December of 1886 at the Municipal Theatre of Módena.
Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real.
(Intermezzo Chorus / Symphonic Orchestra of Madrid )
Artistic Team
Conductor I Nicola Luisotti - 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 30 Sept; 2, 3, 5, 6 Oct.
Conductor I Diego García Rodríguez - 29 Sept., 4 Oct.
Stage Director I David McVicar
Set Designer I Robert Jones
Costume Designer I Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designer I Joachim Klein
Choreographer I Andrew George
Chorus Master I Andrés Máspero
Cast
Filippo II
- I Dmitry Belosselskiy - 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 sep; 3, 6 oct
- I Michele Pertusi - 19, 22, 28 sep; 2, 5 oct
- I Dmitry Ulyanov - 29 sep; 4 oct
Don Carlo
- I Marcelo Puente - 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 sep; 6 oct
- I Andrea Carè - 19, 22, 28 sep; 2, 5 oct
- I Alfred Kim - 29 sep; 4 oct
- | Sergio Escobar - 3 oct
Rodrigo, marqués de Posa
- I Luca Salsi - 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 sep; 3, 6 oct
- I Simone Piazzola - 19, 22, 28 sep; 2, 5 oct
- I Juan Jesús Rodríguez - 29 sep; 4 oct
The Grand Inquisitor
- I Mika Kares - 18, 21, 24, 27, 29, 30 sep; 3, 6 oct
- I Rafał Siwek - 19, 22, 28 sep; 2, 4, 5 oct
A friar I Fernando Radó
Elisabetta de Valois
- I Maria Agresta - 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 sep; 3, 6 oct
- I Ainhoa Arteta - 19, 22, 28 sep; 2, 5 oct r
- I Roberta Mantegna - 29 sep; 4 oct
The princess of Eboli
- I Ekaterina Semenchuk - 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 sep; 3, 6 oct
- I Silvia Tro Santafé - 19, 22, 28 sep; 2, 5 oct
- I Ketevan Kemoklidze - 29 sep; 4 oct
Tebaldo I Natalia Labourdette
Count of Lerma and a royal herald I Moisés Marín
A voice from heaven I Leonor Bonilla
Six Flemish deputies I Mateusz Hoedt, Cristian Díaz, David Sánchez, Francisco Tójar, David Lagares, Luis López Navarro
