Organization

Conductor

Daniele Squeo

Stage director

Hendrik Müller

Set designer

Thomas Dörfler

Costume designer

Katharina Weissenborn

Dramaturge

Andreas Bronkalla

Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern

Lighting designer

Manfred Wilking

Chorus master

Aymeric Catalano

Singer

Bass

Konstantin Gorny

Philip II

Soprano

Arminia Friebe

Elisabeth of Valois

Tenor

Kazuki Yoshida

Don Carlo

Mezzo-soprano

Dorothea Spilger

Princess Eboli

Baritone

Hyunkyum Kim

Rodrigo

Johannes Hubmer

The Count of Lerma

Namhee Kim

Thibault

Tuncay Kurtoglu

The Grand Inquisitor

Arkadiusz Jakus

A Monk

Sofie Lund

A Voice from Heaven

Orchestra

Pfalzphilharmonie Kaiserslautern

Others

Chor des Pfalztheaters

Extrachor des Pfalztheaters

Sung Ha

Olivier Pols

Silent

Laura Kaiser

Countess of Aremberg

Seongjae Choe

Flandrische Deputierte

Yuhui Liang

Michael Kieslich

Ljubomir Milanovic

Maximilian Schmitt

Statisterie des Pfalztheaters

Stijn Ritzen

Leo Jaewon Jung

Royal Herald

Italian

Don Carlo (Italian version)

Kaiserslautern

Germany

Pfalztheater

Großes Haus

Don Carlo Verdi

Public

Private

Opera

German

English

Approved

Don Carlo (Italian version) Verdi

Der spanische Infant Don Carlos liebt Elisabeth von Valois, die Frau seines Vaters. Mit der Ehe zwischen dem spanischen König Philipp II. und der jungen französischen Prinzessin wurde der Frieden zwischen Spanien und Frankreich besiegelt. In seiner Verzweiflung vertraut sich Carlos seinem Freund Rodrigo, dem Marquis von Posa, an. Dieser rät ihm, den Hof zu verlassen und nach Flandern zu gehen, um sich dort für die Freiheit der von den spanischen Besatzern unterdrückten Bevölkerung einzusetzen. Carlos wird zum Rebellen gegen seinen Vater, den König, der in seinem politischen Handeln jedoch auch nur eine Marionette der Kirche ist.

Mit »Don Carlo« greift Giuseppe Verdi zum vierten Mal ein Schauspiel Friedrich Schill ers für eine Oper auf. In großen Tableaus, aufwühlenden Orchesterfarben und leidenschaftlichen Arien zeichnet Verdi Schillers Ideendrama vom politischen Kampf um Freiheit, der mit dem um individuelle Liebe verwoben ist, eindrucksvoll nach.

Deutsch

Grand opera about the fight for political freedom and friendship and a love that is sacrificed for reasons of state
The Spanish Infante Don Carlos loves Elisabeth of Valois, his father's wife. Peace between Spain and France was sealed with the marriage between the Spanish King Philip II and the young French princess. In desperation, Carlos confides in his friend Rodrigo, the Marquis of Posa. He advises him to leave the court and go to Flanders to campaign for the freedom of the population oppressed by the Spanish occupiers. Carlos becomes a rebel against his father, the king, who in his political actions is also just a puppet of the church.

With “Don Carlo” Giuseppe Verdi adapted a play by Friedrich Schiller for an opera for the fourth time. In large tableaux, stirring orchestral colors and passionate arias, Verdi impressively traces Schiller's drama of ideas about the political struggle for freedom, which is interwoven with that for individual love.

There are as many different versions of Giuseppe Verdi's opera as Don Carlo.
Originally a French grand opera in five acts, premiered in Paris in 1867, the opera was published in Milan in 1884 in an Italian translation and greatly abridged in four acts.
The Palatinate Theater performs the Italian five-act version that Verdi created for Modena in 1886.
In the restored first act, the meeting between Carlos and Elisabeth is shown as the starting point of the drama.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble