Great music, infernal costumes, attention-grabbing design, this opera has everything except an intelligible plot.

In her Hieronymus Bosch-inspired production for the Royal Opera House, first seen in 2023, Adele Thomas makes frequent knowing nods to irony. In particular, the members of the chorus, dressed to ...

An animated revival of Adele Thomas’s 2023 production, Il Trovatore strays from realism and instead focuses on a heavily symbolic reading of this dark and gritty opera. With macabre medieval ...

There is a moment at the end of the first half of Il trovatore that changes everything ... s shortlived production?), but even so Adele Thomas’s production from 2023 bids fair to be the worst ...

Stairs, in your multitudes. Adele Thomas’s Trovatore is a workout that stuns the stage in the first half and leaves much to be desired in the second. Verdi’s score grabs us from the start and Thomas ...

Il trovatore, Verdi's opera of obsession, superstition and ancient rivalry returns to the Main Stage this February, with a summer run in July. First staged in Covent Garden in 2023, Adele Thomas's ...

Il Trovatore can seem at first like a parodistic ... The Royal Ballet and Opera’s revival of Adele Thomas’ production lays ...