“Don Carlo”, Giuseppe Verdi – 80th “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” – Opera House of Florence

By |May 14th, 2017|

80th “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” from 5 to 14 May, 2017

Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Stage director: Giancarlo del Monaco
Set designer: Carlo Centolavigna
Costume designer: Jesús Ruiz
Light designer: Wolfgang Zoubek
Orchestra and Chorus of “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”
Don Carlo: Fabio Sartori / Sergio Escobar (14 May)
Elisabetta: Julianna Di Giacomo
Filippo II: Dmitry Beloselskiy
Rodrigo  Massimo Cavalletti
Eboli: Ekaterina Gubanova
Tebaldo: Simona Di Capua
Il Conte di Lerma: Enrico Cossutta

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Screening direct from the prestigious 80th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: 5 May, 2017 – “Don Carlo”, Giuseppe Verdi

By |May 1st, 2017|

All’ Opera: Don Carlo live from ‘Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’, Florence.

Verdi’s grand opera about love, ambition and intrigue is set in 16th-century Spain,80th “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”, based upon the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545-1568). Carlos was betrothed to Elizabeth of Valois (1545-1568), the daughter of France’s King Henry II but for political reasons, Elizabeth was […]