“16th-century Spain. State and church are engaged in a ruthless struggle for dominance over the people. The greatest victim in all of this is none other than the king’s son, the prince Don Carlo.

He is the one who dares to love, to step up for the freedom of the oppressed people and to oppose both the church and the state, shaking up their system of power… Verdi is the only composer, bar none, for whom individual freedom could have become so important.

With this opera, he paints a frightening picture of human civilisation.” So says Frank Hilbrich, director of Don Carlo. 

“Verdi uses grandiose music to portray this painful realisation made so apparent by Schiller’s Don Carlo. Verdi is the only composer, bar none, for whom individual freedom could have become so important. With this opera, he paints a frightening picture of human civilisation.”

Verdi put Schiller’s drama, saturated to the brink with social and political thought, to music by emphasising individual emotions and spiritual resonance. 

Date and time: 
Saturday, 20 February, 8 pm

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