The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo backdrop

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo

Directed by Gary Halvorson, Nicholas Hytner

Starring Roberto Alagna, Marina Poplavskaya

Family jealousy, threat of rebellion, political back-stabbing and the Inquisition weigh heavy on the court of King Phillip II. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where a number of heretics are to be burnt at the stake.