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Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Teatro Real de Madrid

Royal Danish Opera

Opéra De Monte-Carlo

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Giacomo Sagripanti

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Francisco Negrín

Costume designer

Louis Désiré

Set designer

Lighting designer

Bruno Poet

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+3)

Stefano Visconti

Baritone (+2)

Artur Rucinski

The Count of Luna

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Varduhi Abrahamyan

Azucena

Tenor

Piero Pretti

Manrico

Bass (+4)

Evgeny Stavinsky

Ferrando

Contralto (+2)

Annunziata Vestri

Ines

Reinaldo Macias

Ruiz

Chorus

Choeur de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Orchestra

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Soprano (+2)

Pretty Yende

Leonora

Soprano

Alexandra Marcellier

Drama in four parts
Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, completed by Leone Emmanuele Bardare, based on the drama El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez
Premiere: Rome, Teatro Apollo, 19 January 1853

Production Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 
in coproduction with Teatro Real de Madrid and Royal Danish Opera

Italians call Rigoletto, La traviata and Il Trovatore the “trilogia popolare”, an opera fan’s all-time favourites. The stories show Verdi’s passion for contemporary literature – Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas fils, the Spanish playwright Antonio García Gutiérrez –, and his fascination for characters from the edge of society. The deformed jester Rigoletto, the high-class escort Violetta Valéry, and the gypsy Azucena were considered unfit for principal roles in those days, especially when calling for your sympathy.

Il Trovatore is often ridiculised as a string of musical hits with a totally incomprehesible story. But when you boil it down, it is simple really: Two men fight for the love of a noble woman. One is a count, the other a gypsy soldier, but when in the end most of the main characters are dead, it turns out that the latter was the count’s long-lost brother.

The juxtaposition of female figures is great: the innocent object of desire, Leonora, tries to escape from her situation in the only ways possible for a girl of her standing – the monastery, and suicide. Azucena, on the other hand, is a magnificent portrait of a passionate, sometimes distraught, mature woman.

Il trovatore (The Troubadour), Verdi

Caitheadh

Il Conte di Luna

Azucena

Manrico

Ferrando

Ines

Ruiz

Leonora

Criú

Stage director

Conductor

Set designer

Costume designer

Chorusmaster

Lighting designer

Uirlisí ceoil

Léiritheoir

Léiritheoir

Ensemble

Ceolfhoireann

Curfá

Comhléiritheoir

Comhléiritheoir

Grianghraif

Faoi

Composer

Librettist

Tuairisc

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