Don Carlos

Italian melodrama's official recognition as a global cultural treasure was celebrated on Dec. 7 with La Scala's season premiere of Verdi's "Don Carlo," an opera that hits hot-button topics of power and oppression.

The Greek National Opera presents one of the most important operas of Verdi's mature period, "Don Carlos," based on Friedrich Schiller's play of the same title, in its Italian five-act version (Modena, 1886).