Giuseppe Verdi’s grandiose opera can be enjoyed online in Italian with English
and Hungarian subtitles on 20 February from 8pm. The premiere of
this performance of Don Carlos will be staged by internationally
acclaimed director Frank Hilbrich:
“16th-century Spain. State
and Church are engaged in a ruthless and devastating struggle for dominance.
Every rebellion and attempt to establish a humane social order is strangled at
birth. Humanistic ideals are doomed and promoting them results in people being
burnt at the stake by the Inquisition. The greatest victim is the king’s son, Prince
Don Carlos. He dares to love, to step up for the freedom of the oppressed and
to challenge Church and State. With his opera, Verdi paints a frightening
picture of human civilisation”.
