DON CARLO. ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

 30 JUNE–15 JULY 2023

Nicholas Hytner's production of Verdi’s epic historical opera evokes the passion, violence and religious repression of Renaissance Spain.

1560. The union of Don Carlos and Elizabeth of Valois has the power to bring about a new era of peace between Spain and France. But when Carlos’s father, Philip II, decides to marry Elizabeth himself, it triggers a crisis that engulfs the whole of Europe, pitting nation against nation and father against son.

Brian Jagde and Lise Davidsen play the young lovers, with Luca Micheletti as Posa and Yulia Matochkina making her House debut as Eboli. Bertrand de Billy conducts Verdi’s mighty score in this revival of Nicholas Hytner’s spectacular production, steeped in the gilt and gore of Renaissance art.

MUSIC

Giuseppe Verdi

LIBRETTO

Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle after Friedrich von Schiller

DIRECTOR

Nicholas Hytner

REVIVAL DIRECTOR

Daniel Dooner

DESIGNER

Bob Crowley

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Mark Henderson

MOVEMENT

Scarlett Mackmin

FIGHT DIRECTOR

Terry King

CAST

Brian Jagde, Lise Davidsen, Luca Micheletti, Yulia Matochkina, John Relyea

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