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Don Carlo at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Dates: (10/31/2013 - 11/24/2013 )

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Deutsche Oper Berlin


Bismarckstr. 35
Berlin,Berlin 10627

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Phone: +49 (30) 343 84 343

Tickets: €29.00 - €122.00

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It is common knowledge that Giuseppe Verdi, by nature a critical man, not only found much to disapprove of in the trends of his day but also subjected his own work to a continuous process of editing and revision.

None of his operas did he alter, abridge, rearrange or rewrite more intensely than his grimmest work of all – DON CARLO -, whose web of political, religious and social constraints is most reminiscent of the inescapability of destiny associated with Greek drama.

Verdi began writing the opera in 1865, and twenty years were to pass before the premiere in Milan of the four-act version that we are most familiar with today. The composer not only wrestled with the two languages of the piece, each with its distinctive form of expression. He was also at pains to achieve the best possible result by repeatedly cutting, reducing and rearranging. The opera, extensive sections of which are faithful to Schiller’s play, went through no less than seven versions.

In none of the opera’s characters does the light of reason sparkle. Prisoners of their situations, prisoners of their own reins of control and of their own making, above all prisoners of a deadly, ever-looming spiritual power greater even than secular hegemony… Verdi captures the essential helplessness of human beings entangled in this network of terror: at best, death brings release.

Cast and Creative team for Don Carlo at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Conductor Donald Runnicles
Stage Director, Stage Design, Lighting Marco Arturo Marelli
Costume Design Dagmar Niefind
Chorus Master William Spaulding
King Philip of Spain Hans-Peter König
Don Carlo Russell Thomas
Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa Dalibor Jenis
Count of Lerma / Herold Alvaro Zambrano
Inquisitor Paata Burchuladze
Albert Pesendorfer (10.11.2013 | 16.11.2013 | 24.11.2013)
A monk Tobias Kehrer
Elisabeth of Valois Anja Harteros
Barbara Frittoli (24.11.2013)
Princess of Eboli Violeta Urmana
The page Thibaut Alexandra Hutton
Martina Welschenbach (07.11.2013 | 10.11.2013)
A voice Siobhan Stagg
Flemish deputies Ben Wager
Flemish deputies John Chest
Marko Mimica (10.11.2013 | 16.11.2013 | 24.11.2013)
Flemish deputies Simon Pauly
Flemish deputies Andrew Harris
Flemish deputies Davide Luciano
Flemish deputies Stephen Barchi
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