Don Carlos

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 Carlo. 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 Carlo, the work to open ChristianFest which can be considered the essence of the thematic season.

General cast
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............... Péter Kiss
A voice from Heaven............. Zita Váradi


Credits
Conductor: Balázs Kocsár
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: Yvonne Gebauer
Chorus director: Gábor Csiki

Premier: 16/05/2020