Name: Il trovatore
Start: 2019-07-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-07-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Real

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Baritone

Ludovic Tézier

The Count of Luna

Artur Rucinski

Dimitri Platanias

Soprano

Maria Agresta

Leonora

Hibla Gerzmava

Lianna Haroutounian

Mezzo-soprano

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Azucena

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Marina Prudenskaya

Tenor

Francesco Meli

Manrico

Piero Pretti

Bass

Roberto Tagliavini

Ferrando

Cassandre Berthon

Ines

Fabián Lara

Ruiz

Moisés Marín

A messenger

Conductor

Maurizio Benini

Stage director

Francisco Negrín

Set designer

Louis Désiré

Lighting designer

Bruno Poet

Chorus master

Andrés Máspero

Teatro Real de Madrid

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Conductor (+1)

Jonathan Santagada

Teatro Real

Il trovatore -  (The Troubadour)

Madrid

Spain

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.

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

Il trovatore

Opera

The Troubadour

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Although Verdi's Il trovatore is one of the most popular operas in the repertoire, it has a bad reputation for having a slightly kitsch libretto and being full of clichés. So how did director Francisco Negrín inject some fiery new ideas into his new production at the Teatro Real in Madrid?

INTERVIEW | Francisco Negrín IL TROVATORE Verdi - Teatro Real

The Troubadour by Verdi, From (2019/2019), Directed by Francisco Negrín, Conductor Maurizio Benini, Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain

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