Organization

Singer

Tenor

Mikhail Gubsky

Manrico

Khachatur Badalyan

Mikhail Novikov

Soprano

Marina Nerabeyeva

Leonora

Irina Moreva

Olga Terentieva

Elizaveta Soina

Svetlana Kasyan

Baritone

Boris Beletskiy

The Count of Luna

Andrej Breus

Igor Golovatenko

Vasily Ladyuk

Sergey Murzaev

Boris Statsenko

Alexander Martynov

Mezzo-soprano

Anastasia Bibicheva

Azucena

Margarita Nekrasova

Tatyana Tabachuk

Bass

Vitaly Efanov

Ferrando

Vladimir Kudashev

Andrey Fetisov

Sergey Artamonov

Otar Kunchulia

Maxim Ostroukhov

A messenger

Dmitry Pianov

Anton Bochkaryov

Victoria Shevtsova

Ines

Irina Romishevskaya

Ekaterina Kichigina

Svetlana Skripkina

Ruiz

Dmitry Orlov

An old Rom

Sergey Tarasov

Boris Zhukov

Stage director

Marco Gandini

Conductor

Jan Latham-Koenig

Vasily Valitov

Dmitry Volosnikov

Alexandru Samoila

Evgeny Samoilov

Laurent Campellone

Lighting designer

Virginio Levrio

Costume designer

Simona Morresi

Set designer

Italo Grassi

Chorus master

Natalya Popovich

Maria Chekrkchieva

Kristina Ponomareva

Andjey Beletsky

Novaya Opera

Italian

Il trovatore -  (The Troubadour)

Moscow

Russia

Novaya Opera Theatre

Il trovatore Verdi

Public

The Troubadour

Russian

Approved

Il trovatore, composed by Giuseppe Verdi in 1853, is one of his most popular operas. It is a romantic drama with an intricate plot and deathly mysteries, passions of love and fierce duels, vengeance and a tragic denouement. Unaware of their kinship, two brothers, Count di Luna and the troubadour Manrico, are bitter rivals in their fight for power and love for Countess Leonora. Ridden by jealousy and vengeance, di Luna kills his own brother whom he has been looking for all his life as he promised to his now deceased father.

Basing his opera on the play El Trovador by the Spanish playwright Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, Verdi created vivid musical portraits of the characters conveyed by the fabulously melodious arias and duets. These are the gypsy Azucena, who keeps the fateful secret of Manrico’s birth and is torn between her boundless motherly love and vengeance, the perfidious Count di Luna, the noble Manrico and his faithful beloved Leonora. They are supplemented by the picturesque figures of the gypsies, monks, soldiers, and the Count’s courtiers expressed in the splendid choruses. The verve and gorgeousness of Verdi’s score will be displayed to the audience by Novaya Opera’s Chief Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig.

To stage one of Verdi’s most mysterious masterpieces, the Novaya Opera Theatre has invited an Italian production team, including stage director Marco Gandini, set designer Italo Grassi and costume designer Simona Morresi, who have worked together before on successful projects.

Marco Gandini has worked in the major Italian opera houses (Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Rome Opera, San Carlo Theatre in Naples, La Fenice in Venice) and internationally at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, opera houses in Los Angeles and Washington, the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. The sets for most of his productions have been designed by Italo Grassi. A few years ago the team was joined by costume designer Simona Morresi, who in 2011 took part in the production of Verdi’s Falstaff (in Tokyo) and Simon Boccanegra (in Seoul). Il trovatore in Novaya Opera will be the third project of the creative team.

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