36 - Don Carlos

In an effort to revive a more free and sensual music, common in the 19th century, conductor Henrik Schaefer had the orchestra musicians change their modern instruments for those used then. Tobias Theorell’s direction digs deep into Friedrich Schiller’s racy 18th century drama in order to find an opera story relevant for us today. At Folkoperan Giuseppe Verdis masterpiece Don Carlos becomes both political thriller and family soap drama, where the human and the impotence of power are at centre.