
A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink memorably directs a superb cast that includes Ileana Cotrubas at the height of her powers and Luis Lima, unequalled in his tortured introspection, in the title role. (5-act version, sung in Italian)

Don Carlo

Elisabetta di Valois

Rodrigo

Filippo II
Princess Eboli

Grand Inquisitor
A monk
Tebaldo
Count of Lerma
A voice from heaven
A royal herald
Countess of Aremburg (silent acting role)

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