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Coming up:

May 16 at 1 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera
Don Carlo: Giuseppe Verdi

CAST:
Jussi Björling as Don Carlo
Delia Rigal as Elisabeth of Valois
Cesare Siepi as King Philip II of Spain
Fedora Barbieri as Princess Eboli
Robert Merrill as Rodrigo
Jerome Hines as The Grand Inquisitor

CONDUCTOR:
Maestro Fritz Stiedry

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