Organization

Singer

Tenor

Yonghoon Lee

Manrico

Soprano

Leah Crocetto

Leonora

Baritone

Maksim Aniskin

The Count of Luna

Mezzo-soprano

Elena Gabouri

Azucena

Bass

David Parkin

Ferrando

Thomas Strong

A messenger

Iain Henderson

Ruiz

Luke Gabbedy

An old Rom

Stage director

Davide Livermore

Conductor

Andrea Battistoni

Lighting designer

John Rayment

Costume designer

Gianluca Falaschi

Set designer

Giò Forma

Video designer

D-Wok

Sian Sharp

Ines

Opera Australia

Others

Opera Australia Chorus

Orchestra

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Italian

Il trovatore -  (The Troubadour)

Sydney City

Australia

Sydney Opera House

Il trovatore Verdi

Public

The Troubadour

English

Approved

An opera of emotional extremes, Il Trovatore is a burning tale of witchcraft, murder and vengeance that haunts across the ages.Our new production of Verdi's ...

This burning tale of gypsies, witchcraft, murder and recompense demands four of the world’s most powerful voices.
Blinded by rage as her mother burns at the stake, Azucena throws the executioner’s child into the flames. But in the darkness, she has made a fatal mistake, and it is her own child that burns. She seizes the executioner’s child and raises him as her own: a family secret that will haunt the next generation until their deaths.

Verdi had a taste for high drama, and Il Trovatore has all the hallmarks of a great story, enhanced by monumental digital stagecraft: a love triangle, an intergenerational quest for revenge, and a woman willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the man she loves.

But the real attraction lies in the sensational music: from the famous Anvil Chorus to the series of stunning arias penned for the four leads. It is some of Verdi’s finest music, and demands the finest of voices. Hear the incomparable Leah Crocetto as Leonora, Elena Gabouri as the haunted Azucena, audience favourite Yonghoon Lee as the title character Manrico and Maxim Aniskin as Count di Luna.

The Troubadour by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by Davide Livermore,, Conductor Andrea Battistoni, Sydney Opera House, Sydney City, Australia

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