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)
as Don Carlo
as Elisabetta di Valois
as Rodrigo
as Filippo II
as Princess Eboli
as Grand Inquisitor
as A monk
as Tebaldo
as Count of Lerma
as A voice from heaven
as A royal herald
as Countess of Aremburg (silent acting role)
