Trivia / Don Carlo

• All-Star Cast: As Don Carlo, Elisabetta, Eboli, Rodrigo, Filippo, and the Grand Inquisitor...
  • Audio Recordings (French version):
    • 1984, conducted by Claudio Abbado: Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini Terrani, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondi, Nicolai Ghiaurov.
    • 1996, conducted by Antonio Pappano: Roberto Alagna, Karita Mattila, Waltraud Meier, Thomas Hampson, José van Dam, Eric Halfvarson.
  • Audio Recordings (Italian version):
    • 1950, conducted by Fritz Stiedry (live from the old Metropolitan Opera House): Jussi Björling, Delia Rigal, Fedora Barbieri, Robert Merrill, Cesare Siepi, Jerome Hines.
    • 1965, conducted by Georg Solti: Carlo Bergonzi, Renata Tebaldi, Grace Bumbry, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Marrti Talvela.
    • 1970, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini: Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Shirley Verrett, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi, Giovanni Foiani.
    • 1978, conducted by Herbert von Karajan: José Carreras, Mirella Freni, Agnes Baltsa, Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Ruggero Raimondi.
    • 1992, conducted by Riccardo Muti: Luciano Pavarotti, Daniela Dessì, Luciana d'Intino, Paolo Coni, Samuel Ramey, Alexander Anisimov.
  • Video Recordings (Italian version):
    • 1983, conducted by James Levine at the Met Opera: Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Grace Bumbry, Louis Quilico, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Ferruccio Furlanetto.
    • 2008, conducted by Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House: Rolando Villázon, Marina Poplavskaya, Sonia Ganassi, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson.
    • 2013, conducted by Antonio Pappano at the Salzburg Festival: Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Thomas Hampson, Matti Salminen, Eric Halfvarson.
• Cut Song: The five-act version is the longest opera Verdi ever wrote, and he wrote a large amount of material that was cut for length before the premiere, including an opening scene for Élisabeth and the chorus, and a lament for Rodrigo sung by Philip (Verdi liked the tune so much that he used it as the "Lacrimosa" in his Requiem).