Highlights of Verdi's Don Carlo

Enter the world of a 16th-century Spanish royal power struggle, unbridled passion, and religious fervour. Based on Schiller's play of the same name, Verdi's grand opera Don Carlo is a dark, epic masterpiece centred around the tragic, forbidden love between Don Carlo and his stepmother, Elisabeth of Valois. Featuring a dazzling line-up of international opera soloists and rising young stars, with a chorus including students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, this evening presents the "best bits" of Verdi's stirring opera, taking in themes of love, loyalty, familial dysfunction, destiny, brotherhood and jealousy. Leading the orchestra, comprised of players from the renowned Glyndebourne Sinfonia, is Matthew Kofi Waldren, a specialist in Italianate opera repertoire fresh from conducting Puccini's La fanciulla del West at Opera Holland Park. Fai Da Te Productions is a new production company which puts artists and storytelling at the heart of its work.

Programme: Verdi – Don Carlo (1886 Modena version)

Performers: Gwyn Hughes Jones (Don Carlo), Elizabeth Llewellyn (Elisabetta de Valois), David Soar (Filippo), Patrick Alexander Keefe (Rodrigo), Anna Werle (Eboli); narrator TBC; The Fai Da Te Chorus & Orchestra; conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren