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Soprano

Veronica Fizeșan

Leonora

Baritone

Geani Brad

The Count of Luna

Mezzo-soprano

Liza Kadelnik

Azucena

Bass

Petru Burcă

Ferrando

Viktória Cormoș

Ines

Tenor

Florin Pop

Ruiz

Conductor

József Horváth

Stage director

Rodica Popescu Moisa

Set designer

Andrei Şchiopu

Opera Națională Română Cluj-Napoca

Il trovatore -  (The Troubadour)

Cluj-Napoca

Romania

Opera Romana Cluj-Napoca

The Troubadour

Saurav Kumar

Approved

Il trovatore Verdi

Opera in four acts to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after the play  Il trovador  by Antonio García Gutiérrez

Recommended age: 12+

The impressive success recorded by the opera The Troubadour ("Il trovatore") at the time of its premiere on January 19, 1853 was materialized by its subsequent ranking in the string of the "popular trilogy", along with two other Verden masterpieces - Rigoletto and Traviata . The corpus of the composer's dramatic works already included patriotic subjects or taken from English (William Shakespeare, Lord Byron), French (Victor Hugo), German (Friedrich Schiller) romantic literature when he approached the writings of his Spanish contemporary Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813 -1884) and the drama El trovador .

The action of the opera The Troubadour , carried out during the four suggestively titled acts ( The Duel, The Gypsy, The Gypsy's Son and The Punishment) is set in 15th century Spain and centers on Count Alvaro de Luna, Manrico and Countess Leonora de Seze, with whom both men are in love. The plot of the story is not limited to the jealousy that the Count of Luna feels towards his rival, the troubadour Manrico, whom Leonora, in turn, loves. The disappearance many years ago of the count's brother Garcia, abducted and apparently killed by an old witch, echoes in the present: as the count seeks to avenge his brother, the gypsy Azucena—the burned witch's daughter and mother to Manrico - seeks to punish the de Luna family harshly.

We are waiting for you to discover a captivating story of romantic, maternal, filial love, a story of cruelty and revenge born at the unfortunate intersection of the two worlds so discrepant: the noble one and that of the simple gypsies!

The show has three breaks and ends around 9:30 p.m

English

The Troubadour by Verdi, From (2018/2018), Directed by Rodica Popescu Moisa,, Conductor József Horváth, Opera Romana Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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