“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

    Production […]

      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 […]