Overview
A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink memorably directs a superb cast that includes Ileana Cotrubas at the height of her powers and Luis Lima, unequalled in his tortured introspection, in the title role. (5-act version, sung in Italian)
Cast
- Luis Lima as Don Carlo
- Ileana Cotrubas as Elisabetta di Valois
- Giorgio Zancanaro as Rodrigo
- Robert Lloyd as Filippo II
- Bruna Baglioni as Princess Eboli
- Joseph Rouleau as Grand Inquisitor
- Matthew Best as A monk
- Patricia Parker as Tebaldo
- John Dobson as Count of Lerma
- Lola Biagioni as A voice from heaven