80° Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Opera

Don Carlo

Giuseppe Verdi

“I want to be a close as possible to Verdi and Schiller”: thus, the director Giancarlo del Monaco presents his Don Carlo, a staging rich in period costume, fearsome inquisitors and huge crucifixes. Zubin Mehta is at the helm of the Orchestra and Choir of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for the version in four acts of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece which is inspired by Schiller and the leyenda negra on the reign of Philip II, el Rey prudente.

Don Carlo
Opera in four acts
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle
First performance: 11 March 1867 at the Théâtre de l'Académie Impériale de Musique in Paris

Staging by ABAO-OLBE of Bilbao, the Fundación Ópera de Oviedo, the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla and the Festival Ópera de Tenerife

With surtitles in English and Italian by Prescott Studio, Firenze in cooperation with Inserra Chair (Montclair State University) and ICAMus, USA

Artists

Conductor
Zubin Mehta

Director
Giancarlo Del Monaco

Associate director
Sarah Schinasi

Scenes
Carlo Centolavigna

Costumes
Jesús Ruiz

Light design
Wolfgang von Zoubek

Choir director
Lorenzo Fratini

Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Don Carlo
Roberto Aronica

Elisabetta di Valois
Julianna Di Giacomo

Filippo II
Dmitry Beloselskiy

Rodrigo, marchese di Posa
Massimo Cavalletti

Principessa Eboli
Ekaterina Gubanova

Il Grande Inquisitore
Eric Halfvarson

Un frate
Oleg Tsybulko

Una voce dal cielo
Laura Giordano

Tebaldo
Simona Di Capua

Il Conte di Lerma
Enrico Cossutta

Un araldo reale
Saverio Fiore

Deputati fiamminghi
Tommaso Barea
Benjamin Cho
Qianming Dou
Min Kim
Chanyoung Lee
Dario Shikhmiri

Figuranti speciali
Elena Barsotti
Chiara Catelani
Gaia Mazzeranghi
Ylenia Mendolicchio
Mauro Barbiero
Cristiano Colangelo
Pierangelo Preziosa
Leonardo Velletri
Dates

Sun 14 May, ore 15:30
Thu 11 May, ore 20:00
Mon 8 May, ore 20:00
Fri 5 May, ore 20:00

Running times
First part: 1 hour and 52 minutes
Intermission: 30 minutes
Second part: 1 hour and 36 minutes

Total running time: 3 hours and 58 minutes
Prices
Stalls I 150 €
Stalls II 220 €
Stalls III 100 €
Boxes 70 €
Gallery 35 €
Limited visibility 20 €
Where

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Piazzale Vittorio Gui, 1
50144 Firenze

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