Performance in four acts (seven paintings) on a libretto by Achille de Lauzières-Thémines and Angelo Zanardini, after the drama Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien by Friedrich Schiller. Along with other titles written during the period of compositional maturity of Giuseppe Verdi, the opera Don Carlo reflects the new expressive peaks gradually gained and achieved under the impulse offered by the reform of his contemporary Richard Wagner in the field of ...