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 ...

The absurd plot of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” is a distraction best left unexplained and unexcused. Put simply, the opera concerns a romantic triangle between a woman and two men, one of whom is a mama’s ...

I must admit that the Met’s current revival of IL TROVATORE--with RIGOLETTO and TRAVIATA, considered the great creations of Verdi’s middle period--made me think of another masterwork, “A Night at the ...

Verdi's Il Trovatore returns to the Met on October 26 with a slate of Met role debuts. Sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Angela Meade share the role of Leonora, with Willis-Sørensen making her Met ...

Spectacular spectaculars have their pride of place in the opera world, but with its staging of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," the Bregenz Festival raises the stakes by providing vocal as well as actual ...

Mezzo-soprano Irina Mishura, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Marcello Giordani star in Houston Grand Opera's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore, from the Wortham Theater Center. Radvanovsky was ...

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 ...

You’re not there for the plot. It’s Verdi’s music that irresistibly draws opera lovers to “Il Trovatore” (“The Troubadour”), which boasts one hit tune after another. It has one of the world’s most ...

Tenor Brian Vu and mezzo-soprano Anne Maguire in Il Trovatore at Opera in the Heights. Credit: Photo by Pin Lim If you think the art of opera is dying, I turn your attention to Opera in the Heights ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opening was a wake-up call. Raymond Aceto sang Ferrando’s narration vividly, the men’s chorus was vigorous ...

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 ...

David Bösch’s production, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, commendably looks to its ensemble to bring connection and drama to Verdi’s blood-curdling tragedy Of the three all-conquering operas that ...