Don Carlo

  • Genre: Music
  • Run time: 204 min
  • Premiere: 1985. October 12.

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink memorably directs a superb cast that includes Ileana Cotrubas at the height of her powers and Luis Lima, unequalled in his tortured introspection, in the title role. (5-act version, sung in Italian)

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Luis Lima

Don Carlo

Ileana Cotrubas

Elisabetta di Valois

Robert Lloyd

Filippo II

Bruna Baglioni

Princess Eboli

Joseph Rouleau

Grand Inquisitor

John Dobson

Count of Lerma

Lola Biagioni

A voice from heaven

Alan Jones

A royal herald

Romayne Grigorova

Countess of Aremburg (silent acting role)

Art

Luchino Visconti

Production Design

Directing

Brian Large

Director

Production

Robin Scott

Producer

Sound

Writing