
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Banevich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Richard Strauss

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Georges Bizet

Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexei Verstovsky

Anton Rubinstein

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Sergei Prokofiev

Modest Mussorgsky

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich
Umberto Giordano

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Giacomo Puccini

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Tatiana Kamysheva

The first edition of the score was completed in 1866. Verdi wrote Don Carlo for Paris and had to obey the genre requirements of the French "grand opera". The premiere took place on the 11th of March 1867, and the first alterations were already taking place: part of the music was cut, and ballet was added in the third act. Subsequently, the composer reworked the music many times. In 1872, the premiere of the "Naples" version of the opera took place, and the last, "Modena" version appeared in 1886. The four-act "Milan" version, which was released in 1884, is performed more often than the others.
Don Carlo refers to the mature period of Verdi's work and marks the transition from the violent bubbling up of emotions in La Traviata, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore to the deep psychologism of his later works. The libretto is based on the drama of the same name by Friedrich Schiller, whose work Verdi has repeatedly addressed before (Giovanna d'Arco, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller). The work of Schiller, like that of Hugo and Shakespeare, was one of the examples of dramatic mastery to Verdi, and he fully realized his aspirations in Don Carlo.
Premiered on December 17, 2013.
Presented with one interval.
Libretto by François-Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle
Original Italian translation by Achille De Lauzières, revised by Angelo Zanardini
‘Milan’ version 1884
In Honor of Giuseppe Verdi Bicentennial
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
In 1556, the Emperor Charles V abdicated, celebrated his own funeral and retired to the monastery of San Jeronimo at Yuste. His son Philip II is now on the throne of Spain. To seal the peace between France and Spain after a long war, Philip marries Elisabeth of Valois, the daughter of Henry II, the French King, who has long been betrothed to his son Don Carlo.
Act I
Scene 1
The cloister of the Yuste monastery
A Monk prays before the gates of the tomb of Charles V. Carlo starts at the sound of the voice — is this his grandfather, the Emperor?
Carlo’s friend Rodrigo, the Marquis of Posa, joins him, and advises him to conquer his sorrow caused by losing his bride by a noble enterprise — that of freeing Flanders. The two vow to live and die together.