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Baritone (+4)

Ludovic Tézier

The Count of Luna

Baritone (+2)

Artur Rucinski

Baritone (+1)

Dimitri Platanias

Soprano (+1)

Maria Agresta

Leonora

Soprano (+3)

Hibla Gerzmava

Lianna Haroutounian

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Azucena

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Marina Prudenskaya

Tenor

Francesco Meli

Manrico

Piero Pretti

Bass (+2)

Roberto Tagliavini

Ferrando

Soprano (+2)

Cassandre Berthon

Ines

Tenor (+1)

Fabián Lara

Ruiz

Moisés Marín

A messenger

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Maurizio Benini

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Francisco Negrín

Set designer

Louis Désiré

Lighting designer

Bruno Poet

Chorusmaster

Andrés Máspero

Assistant Conductor

Jonathan Santagada

Teatro Real

Teatro Real de Madrid

Italian

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

Staged

Opera

The Troubadour

Spanish

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Los gitanos españoles, entre los que se encuentra una Azucena atormentada, alaban al trabajo duro, al buen vino y a las gitanas.Considerado como una de las i...

The Troubadour: Coro de los gitanos | Teatro Real

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Il trovatore (The Troubadour), Verdi

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Il Conte di Luna

Leonora

Azucena

Manrico

Ferrando

Ines

Ruiz

Un messo

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