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Opéra De Monte-Carlo

Dirigent

Dirigent (+1)

Giacomo Sagripanti

Regisseur

Regisseur (+2)

Francisco Negrín

Kostuum ontwerper

Louis Désiré

Set designer

Licht ontwerper

Bruno Poet

Koor meester

Dirigent (+3)

Stefano Visconti

Bariton (+2)

Artur Rucinski

Il Conte di Luna

Mezzosopraan (+4)

Varduhi Abrahamyan

Azucena

Tenor

Piero Pretti

Manrico

Bas (+4)

Evgeny Stavinsky

Ferrando

Alto-mezzo (+2)

Annunziata Vestri

Ines

Reinaldo Macias

Ruiz

Chorus

Choeur de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Orchestra

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Sopraan (+2)

Pretty Yende

Leonora

Sopraan

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 (De troubadour), Verdi

Cast

Il Conte di Luna

Azucena

Manrico

Ferrando

Ines

Ruiz

Leonora

Productieteam

Regisseur

Dirigent

Set designer

Kostuum ontwerper

Koor meester

Licht ontwerper

Instrumentatie

Producent

Producent

Ensemble

Orkest

Koor

Co-producent

Co-producent

Foto's

Ontdek

Componist

Librettist

Beschrijving

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