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Elin Pritchard leads a fine cast in Grange Park Opera’s Don Carlo revival

Elin Pritchard (Elisabetta)
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Harrison Chéné Gration (Monk)
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Ruxandra Donose (Eboli) and Matthew Rose (Filippo II)
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Otar Jorjikia (Don Carlo) and Michel de Souza (Posa)
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Don Carlo, Act 2
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“when Pritchard opened the last act... we were suddenly in an international opera house”
Reviewed at The Theatre in the Woods, West Horsley on 6 June 2026
Verdi, Don Carlo(s) (Sung in Italian)
Grange Park Opera
Gianluca Marcianò, Conductor
Jo Davies, Director
Leslie Travers, Set Designer
Gabrielle Dalton, Costume Designer
Anna Watson, Lighting Designer
English National Opera Orchestra
Grange Park Opera Chorus
Matthew Rose, Filippo II
Otar Jorjikia, Don Carlo
Michel de Souza, Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa
Julian Close, Il Grande Inquisitore
Elin Pritchard, Elisabetta di Valois
Ruxandra Donose, La Principessa Eboli
Harrison Chéné Gration, Un frate
Claire Pendleton, Tebaldo
James Schouten, Il Conte di Lerma
Lynne Hockney, Movement director
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