

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)

Luis Lima
Don Carlo

Ileana Cotrubas
Elisabetta di Valois

Giorgio Zancanaro
Rodrigo

Robert Lloyd
Filippo II
Bruna Baglioni
Princess Eboli

Joseph Rouleau
Grand Inquisitor
Matthew Best
A monk
Patricia Parker
Tebaldo
John Dobson
Count of Lerma
Lola Biagioni
A voice from heaven