DON CARLOS

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Opera in five acts in Italian
Libretto: G. Méry and C. du Locle after Schiller
Premièr at Opéra, Paris – 11 March 1867
15 November 1962
Staatsoper, Wien

Conductor: Ernst Marzendorfer
Chorus master: Richard Rossmayer
Stage director: Margarethe Wallmann
Scene and costumes: Georges Wakhevitsch

Elisabeth de Valois LEYLA GENCER soprano
Princess Eboli her lady-in-waiting BISERKA CVEJIC mezzo-soprano
Don Carlos heir to the Spanish throne GIUSEPPE ZAMPIERI tenor
Rodrigo Marquess of Posa ALDO PROTTI baritone
Philip II King of Spain NICOLA ZACCARIA bass
The Grand Inquisitor HANS HOTTER bass
A Monk TUGOMIR FRANC bass
Tebaldo LAURENCE DUTOIT soprano
La Contessa d’Aramberg ELFRIEDE HLIANK dancer
Count Lerma ERICH MAJKUT tenor
The Royal Herald SIEGFRIED RUDOLF ERESE tenor
A heavenly voice LISELOTTE MAIKL soprano
Flemish deputies: FRANZ BIERBACH, LJUBOMIR PANTSCHEFF, HARALD PRÖGLHÖF, HANS SCHWEIGER, NORBERT BALATSCH, KURT BERNHARD, HARALD BUCHSBAUM, RUDOLF ZIMMER

Time: Mid-Sixteenth Century
Place: France and Spain


OPERA MAGAZINE
1963 January