Verdi’s grandest opera was presented in 2008 in a production directed by the Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner. Now, it returns, with many of the original cast including Ferruccio Furlanetto and Simon Keenlyside.

Don Carlo takes an in-depth exploration of how the private and public lives of the powerful impact on the fate of nations.

Jonas Kaufmann plays Don Carlo, who has fallen in love with his step-mother, Elizabeth of Valois. His father, Philip II of Spain, fears the worst. Around this tragic central triangle, complicated by the intervention of Princess Eboli, is the conflict between authoritarian religion, represented by the Grand Inquisitor and the libreal Marquis of Posa.

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