Placido Domingo - Don Carlos
Mirella Freni - Elisabetta
Nicolai Ghiaurov - Filippo
Christa Ludwig - Eboli
Piero Cappuccilli - Rodrigo
Gheorghe Crasnaru - Grand Inquisitor
José van Dam - a Monk
Gabriele Fuchs - Tebaldo
Robert Kerns - a Herald
Giorgio Stendoro - Lerma
Anna Tomova-Sintov - Voice from Heaven
Conductor - Herbert von Karajan
Salzburg,