Don Carlo
October 12, 1985•3h 24m•★ 9.0
Music
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)
Director
Brian LargeWriters
Cast
Luis Lima
Don Carlo
Ileana Cotrubas
Elisabetta di Valois
Giorgio Zancanaro
Rodrigo
Robert Lloyd
Filippo II
?
Bruna Baglioni
Princess Eboli
Joseph Rouleau
Grand Inquisitor
?
Matthew Best
A monk
?
Patricia Parker
Tebaldo
?
John Dobson
Count of Lerma
?
Lola Biagioni
A voice from heaven
?
Alan Jones
A royal herald
?
Romayne Grigorova
Countess of Aremburg (silent acting role)