As operatic plots go, Verdi’s Il Trovatore has to be amongst the most stupid. The tale of “a gypsy who throws her baby on the fire by mistake” does not sound like the most promising of departure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Verdi’s melodramatic tale, on a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, tells the grisly and convoluted story of Azucena who claims that ...

An animated revival of Adele Thomas’s 2023 production, Il Trovatore strays from realism and instead focuses on a heavily symbolic reading of this dark and gritty opera. With macabre medieval costumes, ...

Verdi’s opera of obsession and superstition returns to the Royal Opera House in a production that lights up the stage with ‘anarchic imagination’ (Guardian), combining Hieronymus Bosch-inspired mayhem ...

Il trovatore, Verdi's opera of obsession, superstition and ancient rivalry returns to the Main Stage this February, with a summer run in July. First staged in Covent Garden in 2023, Adele Thomas's ...

Il Trovatore (‘The Troubadour’) is a tale of civil war in which two long lost brothers, sworn enemies, fight for the love of a woman. First produced in 1853, it is normally set in the middle ages and ...

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