Opera

Il trovatore

Giuseppe Verdi

03 Jul, 19 - 25 Jul, 19

Musical conductor: Maurizio Benini

Stage Director: Francisco Negrín

New production by the Teatro Real

03 Jul 19

Premiere

25 Jul 19

Last Performance

The second Verdi's title of the 2018/19 season is one of the most popular in all opera repertoire: Il Trovatore. In a new production of the Teatro Real, Maurizio Benini conducts two casts of renowned Verdi stars: Ludovic Tézier, Maria Agresta, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Francesco Meli and Roberto Tagliavini, among many others. The complicated story, based on the play by Antonio García Gutiérrez, is told here in a big production by Francisco Negrín, in which he highlights the dramatic and enormous tension in this Verdi masterpiece.

Dramma in four parts

Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez

Premiered at the Teatro Apollo de Roma on 19 January 1853
Premiered at the Teatro Real on 16 February 1854

New production by the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Royal Danish Opera of Copenhagen

Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
(Coro Intermezzo / Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid)

Artistic Team

Musical Director I Maurizio Benini

Stage Director I Francisco Negrín

Set Designer and Costume designer I Louis Desiré

Lighting Designer I Bruno Poet

Choir Director I Andrés Máspero

Cast

Count di Luna I Ludovic Tézier - 03, 06, 09, 13, 18, 24 Jul

I Artur Rucinski - 04, 08, 19, 23, 25 Jul

I Dimitri Platanias - 12, 16, 21 Jul

Leonora I Maria Agresta - 03, 06, 09, 13, 18 Jul

I Hibla Gerzmava - 04, 08, 19, 23, 25 Jul

I Lianna Haroutounian - 12, 16, 21, 24 Jul

Azucena I Ekaterina Semenchuk - 03, 06, 09, 13, 18, 21, 24 Jul

I Marie-Nicole Lemieux - 04, 08, 12, 16, 19 Jul

I Marina Prudenskaya - 23, 25 Jul

Manrico I Francesco Meli - 03, 06, 09, 13, 18, 21, 24 Jul

I Piero Pretti - 04, 08, 12, 16, 19, 23, 25 Jul

Ferrando I Roberto Tagliavini

Ines I Cassandre Berthon

Ruiz I Fabián Lara

A messenger I Moisés Marín

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Language

Italian

Subtitles in

Spanish, English

Synopsis of Il trovatore

From the impenetrable – and often delirious plot of Il trovatore, the aspect that without a shadow of a doubt most attracted Giuseppe Verdi was the profound vital contradiction in which Azucenafinds herself immersed, as filled with love for her son as full of hate for her mother. At all cost, the musician looked for a way to reveal the overflowing passions of this woman, and as such he defended it to his librettist, reaching the extreme of suggesting that they abandon the story if he was not convinced (as an alternative, he proposed focusing on a section of the plot which would end in an ‘illumination’ as in La Traviata). It was not necessary. The opera was developed over three years of frenetic musical activity and serious personal problems, but Verdi achieved what he was looking for. With an almost rampant termperament and an overpowering impetus, Il trovatoreoverflows with dramatic tension and musical geniality, resulting in a story of love and revenge which increases in intensity throughout, irrepressible, leading to the final catastrophe. From the very moment of its première, the opera increased in popularity, and now over a century and a half later, it continues to be a resounding height of opera repertory

Artistic information

Releases

Patron friends

15 March

2019

Subscribers friend

20 March

2019

Tickets on sale

25 March

2019

Performances

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03 July 2019