[cancelled] Il trovatore
Giuseppe Verdi
[ New production ]
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano after Antonio García Gutiérrez
Premiered at the Teatro Apollo of Rome on 19 January 1853
Infos
Mulhouse
La Filature
Strasbourg
Opéra
Cast
Musical Director Daniele Callegari Stage Director, Stage Set and Costume Jean-Philippe Clarac, Olivier Deloeuil Decor and costume collaboration Christophe Pitoiset Artistic collaboration Lodie Kardouss Video Jean-Baptiste Beïs Dramaturgy Luc Bourrousse
Artists
Il Conte di Luna Scott Hendricks Leonora Brigitta Kele Azucena Sonia Ganassi Manrico Stefano La Colla Ferrando Antonio di Matteo Ines Claire Péron Ruiz Tristan Blanchet Chœur de l’Opéra national du Rhin, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
Presentation
This key opera by Giuseppe Verdi was preceded by Rigoletto and followed by La traviata, which due to their success are often seen as his trilogia popolare. However, Il Trovatore stands out for its spectacular and gloomy subject, where the inherited hatred shared through blood ties never seems to end in a society divided between the aristocracy and the Romani community.
The tragic story shows how permeable this division really is: Just after his execution, Manrico's real identity, which was hidden from him by his presumed mother -- the strong, loving and desperate Azucena, who as a child witnessed the barbaric murder of her own mother by the di Luna family -- is revealed to his worst enemy and executioner, Count di Luna. Manrico was none other than di Luna's own brother, kidnapped by Azucena when he was only a few months old.
This production is the OnR debut of the duo of Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil, founders of the LAB. The Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg will be conducted by Daniele Callegari, who is returning after his success with Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci in 2017.
In Italian
Overtitled in French, German