Don Carlos
Grand opera in 5 Acts
Welsh National Opera, Cardiff
by Giuseppe Verdi
Text by Joseph MÉry and Camille Du Locle
Based on Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Friedrich Schiller
This was a co-production between the Welsh National Opera and Canadian Opera Company of the original 5 Act version of Don Carlos, sung in French.
The first performance of this production was by the WNO at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 17th September 2005. It then toured around the UK, playing in Edinburgh, Llandudno, Oxford, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton and Liverpool.
It was subsequently played by the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto during October and November 2007 with a substantially different cast.
The Houston Grand Opera production opened on 13th April 2012 and played in repertoire until the 28th April.
Creative Team
| Conductor | Carlo Rizzi |
| Director | John Caird |
| Set Designer | Johan Engels |
| Costume Designer | Carl Friedrich Oberle |
| Lighting Designer | Nigel Levings |
| Movement Director | Denni Sayers |
| Chorus Master | Donald Nally |
| Assistant Conductor | Anthony Negus |
| Music Staff | Gareth Jones, David Seaman |
| Surtitles | Simon Rees |
| Staff Directors | Robin Tebbutt, Jean Michel Criqui |
| Language Coach | Marianne Vidal |
| Stage Manager | Liz Walker |
| Production Artwork | Johan Engels |
| Production Photographs | Bill Cooper |
Cast
| Elizabeth de Valois | Nuccia Focile |
| Thibault | Elizabeth Atherton |
| Don Carlos | Paul Charles Clarke |
| Comte de Lerme | Luis Rodriguez |
| The Spirit of Charles V | Matthew Rose |
| Rodrigue, Marquis de Posa | Scott Hendricks |
| Philippe II | Andrea Silvestrelli |
| Princess Eboli | Guang Yang |
| Comtesse D’Arenberg | Claire Hampton |
| Herald | Luis Rodriguez |
| Flemish Deputies | Matthew Hargreaves, Mark Evans, Jonathan May, Damian Thantrey, Eddie Wade, Owen Webb |
| Voice from Heaven | Megan Llewellyn Dorke |
| Grand Inquisitor | Daniel Sumegi |
| A Woodsman | Jack Kelly |