The Metropolitan Opera - Don Carlo

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Don Carlo

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by François Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, after the play by Friedrich Schiller
Italian version by Achille de Lauzières and Angelo Zanardini
THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance)
Don Carlo tenor, RAMÓN VARGAS
Tebaldo soprano, JENNIFER HOLLOWAY
Elisabetta soprano, BARBARA FRITTOLI
Count Lerma tenor, EDUARDO VALDES
Friar bass, MIKLÓS SEBESTYÉN
Rodrigo bar., DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY
Eboli mezzo, ANNA SMIRNOVA
Filippo II bass, FERRUCCIO FURLANETTO
baritone, ALEXEI LAVROV
bass, PAUL CORONA
Flemish bass, ERIC JORDAN
Deputies bass-bar., EVAN HUGHES
baritone, JOSHUA BENAIM
bass-bar., DAVID CRAWFORD
Celestial Voice soprano, JENNIFER CHECK
Grand Inquisitor bass, ERIC HALFVARSON

Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Production: Nicholas Hytner
Set and costume designer: Bob Crowley
Lighting designer: Mark Henderson
Stage director: J. Knighten Smit
Chorus master: Donald Palumbo
Musical preparation: Joan Dornemann,
Paul Nadler, Lydia Brown,
Natalia Katyukova
Movement coach: Sara Erde
Assistant stage directors: Sara Erde,
Stephen Pickover
Prompter: Joan Dornemann
Stage band conductor: Gregory Buchalter
Fight director: Rick Sordelet
Italian coach: Loretta Di Franco

Production a gift of
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Miller

Revival a gift of
The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation A coproduction of the Metropolitan Opera;
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden;
and the Norwegian National Opera &
Ballet

THE SCENES Timings (ET)
ACT I Fontainebleau Forest 11:00–
ACT II
Sc. 1 Monastery of St. Just
Sc. 2 Monastery garden –12:36
ACT III 1:08–1:44
Sc. 1 Queen's garden
Sc. 2 Plaza outside cathedral
ACT IV 2:13–
Sc. 1 King's study
Sc. 2 Prison
ACT V Monastery of St. Just –3:37

Host: Margaret Juntwait
Commentator: Ira Siff
Music producer: Jay David Saks
Producers: Mary Jo Heath, Ellen Keel,
William Berger
Executive producers: Mia Bongiovanni,
Elena Park

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In the Queen's garden, Filippo confronts Elisabetta (Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya as Elisabetta)
© Beth Bergman 2013