Don Carlo - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Don Carlo
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Time:
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25.05.2025 , Sunday
18:00
Hungarian State Opera House, Andrássy út 22, 1061 Budapest
Opera in five acts in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
“Spain of the 16th Century. Church and state are waging a ruthless and devastating struggle for supremacy over the people. Every rebellion and every attempt to establish a humane social order is nipped in the bud. Humanist ideals are condemned to death from the outset, and those who profess them are burned at the stake by the Inquisition. The greatest victim in all this is none other than the king's son, Prince Don Carlo. He is the one who dares to love, to stand up for the freedom of the oppressed and to challenge both church and state and shake their system of power..." This is the take of Frank Hilbrich, the director of the production, who adds: "Verdi portrayed this painful realization with grandiose music in Schiller's play Don Carlos. For no other composer could individual freedom have taken on such a significance. With this opera he paints a frightening picture of human civilisation.”
Verdi cast Schiller's drama, a work in which almost every line is steeped in social and political ideas, to music in a way that emphasizes individual emotions and spiritual vibrations. Hilbrich, a director who has long been recognized in the German-speaking world, has made an international name for himself primarily with Wagner productions, but also with contemporary operas.
Original libretto based on the drama by Schiller
Joseph Mery
Camille du Locle
Original libretto in French translated into Italian by
Achille de Lauzieres
Angelo Zanardini
Director
Frank Hilbrich
set designer
Volker Thiel
costume designer
Gabrielle Ruprecht
dramaturg
Eszter Orban
Hungarian surtitles
Eszter Orban
English surtitles
Arthur Roger Crane
choirmaster
Gabor Csiki
Subject to change.
“Spain of the 16th Century. Church and state are waging a ruthless and devastating struggle for supremacy over the people. Every rebellion and every attempt to establish a humane social order is nipped in the bud. Humanist ideals are condemned to death from the outset, and those who profess them are burned at the stake by the Inquisition. The greatest victim in all this is none other than the king's son, Prince Don Carlo. He is the one who dares to love, to stand up for the freedom of the oppressed and to challenge both church and state and shake their system of power..." This is the take of Frank Hilbrich, the director of the production, who adds: "Verdi portrayed this painful realization with grandiose music in Schiller's play Don Carlos. For no other composer could individual freedom have taken on such a significance. With this opera he paints a frightening picture of human civilisation.”
Verdi cast Schiller's drama, a work in which almost every line is steeped in social and political ideas, to music in a way that emphasizes individual emotions and spiritual vibrations. Hilbrich, a director who has long been recognized in the German-speaking world, has made an international name for himself primarily with Wagner productions, but also with contemporary operas.
Original libretto based on the drama by Schiller
Joseph Mery
Camille du Locle
Original libretto in French translated into Italian by
Achille de Lauzieres
Angelo Zanardini
Director
Frank Hilbrich
set designer
Volker Thiel
costume designer
Gabrielle Ruprecht
dramaturg
Eszter Orban
Hungarian surtitles
Eszter Orban
English surtitles
Arthur Roger Crane
choirmaster
Gabor Csiki
Subject to change.