Opera Colorado is performing the Italian opera, Il Trovatore, in a concert format. The four act classic is shortened to 90-minutes, but still brings all the drama of the original. "You would think ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental and monumentally exciting opera (1853, composed immediately after Rigoletto and before La Traviata) roars into Opera in the Heights and flattens everything else around. It ...

The Houston Grand Opera opened its 2024-25 season on Friday with a new production of Verdi’s "Il Trovatore" that showcased a singing cast of virtuosos, solid orchestral accompaniment, and a modern ...

Audience members at the Pittsburgh Opera production of “Il Trovatore” might be reminded of a popular medieval fantasy television series. “In many ways, the setting and staging of ‘Il Trovatore’ feels ...

In rehearsal. Raehann Bryce-Davis for il Trovatore at Houston Grand Opera. Credit: Photo by Michael Bishop “She’s the crux of where bel canto beautiful singing meets drama,” is how mezzo-soprano ...

LA Opera opens its 2021/22 season on September 18, 2021, with Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore, marking its official return to fully staged productions for in-person audiences for the first time since ...

Opera Holland Park opens its summer season with a muddled production of Verdi’s Il trovatore. Driving drain and bitterly cold winds didn’t help concentrate the mind on John Lloyd Davies’ often ...

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Il trovatore has long enjoyed the reputation of being an opera whose plot thoroughly confuses audiences the world over, but no matter, the tunes invariably carry the evening and everyone present has a ...