The production of Friedrich Schiller’s (1759-1805) classic historical drama Don Carlos (1787) directed by Michael Grandage recently finished its run at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The ...

Don Carlos, a vast portrait of personal and political machinations amidst the brutality of the Spanish Inquisition, is the type of work the Met alone is able to pull off. It’s a genuine “grand opera” ...

Don Carlos is Verdi's grandest and, to my mind, greatest opera. Opera Australia's mighty production - a restudy by director Elijah Moshinsky of his 1999 staging - does the ultimate justice to the ...

NEW YORK — Before plunging us nearly five hours deep and as many centuries back into Verdi’s 1867 masterpiece “Don Carlos,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb wanted to ensure we were all ...

Here it comes, you find yourself thinking: Another title from the World Drama’s Greatest Hits list, a golden oldie you’d really rather not see again until, say, next year. Familiarity doesn’t always ...

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David Rosen walked into France's Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra National in the summer of 1968 and requested the original materials from when Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlos” premiered at the Paris Opera ...