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

Il Trovatore ... Ballet and Opera’s revival of Adele Thomas’ production lays bare these theatrical fundaments. Aside from ...

Adele Thomas’s Trovatore is a workout that stuns the stage in ... scene showing beautiful command of levels and complimenting costumes (design by Annemarie Woods). The opera's finale, too, made ...

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The work also plays to preconceptions about Italian opera: a plot that twists and leaps, mistaken identities, set pieces, catchy tunes, opportunities for vocal display and characters singing about ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a moment at the end of the first half of Il trovatore that changes everything. Leonora is poised ...

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 ...

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 ...