Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. I must admit that the Met’s current revival of IL TROVATORE--with RIGOLETTO ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) was the third opera presented at the Metropolitan Opera House on October 26 in 1883, the year the New York City opera house was founded. Il Trovatore had ...

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 ...

The mob of horrified faces on the curtain (by set designer Charles Edwards) that rises on Lyric Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore sets the mood for the story to come. It’s grim—a ...

Guild Opera Co. will present Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi in concert. A musical masterpiece filled with passion, revenge, ...

When Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” premiered in 1853, it was the second of a trio of masterpieces including “Rigoletto” and “La Traviata” that emerged in the composer’s “middle” career period and ...

No opera -- this side of Wagner's "Ring," anyhow -- brooks more deserved ridicule for its plot absurdity than "Il Trovatore." No opera surmounts these absurdities -- long-lost siblings, mistaken ...

Il Trovatore It may be among Verdi's most popular operas, but "Il Trovatore" has suffered one bad staging after another at the Met over the past 40 years. This latest version, a co-production with ...

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