Verdi - Don Carlo Act I-II-III | Renata Scotto, James Levine (MET 1980)

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Joseph Méry, and Camille du Locle. Translated into Italian by A. Ghislanzoni.
Premiere: French version in five acts: 11 March 1867, Paris
Language: Five-act version sung in Italian
Synopsis: https://www.opera-arias.com/verdi/don-carlo/synopsis/
Translation: English subtitles

Cast&Characters:
Renata Scotto as Elizabeth of Valois
Vasile Moldoveanu as Don Carlo
Tatiana Troyanos as Princess of Eboli
Sherrill Milnes as Rodrigo
Paul Plishka as Philip II
Jerome Hines as the Grand Inquisitor
Betsy Norden as Tebaldo

The Metropolitan Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor James Levine
Chorus Master David Stivender
Set Designer David Reppa
Production by John Dexter
Costume Designer Ray Diffen
Recorded at the Metropolitan Opera House on 21 February 1980

Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien ("Don Carlos, Infante of Spain") by Friedrich Schiller. The opera is most often performed in Italian translation, usually under the title Don Carlo. The story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545-1568), after his betrothed Elisabeth of Valois was married instead to his father Philip II of Spain as part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551-1559 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois. It was commissioned and produced by the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra (Paris Opera) and premiered at the company's theatre, the Salle Le Peletier, on 11 March 1867. Over the following twenty years, cuts and additions were made to the opera, resulting in a number of versions being available to directors and conductors. No other Verdi opera exists in so many versions. At its full-length (including the ballet and the cuts made before the first performance), it contains about four hours of music and is Verdi's longest opera.