Sung with a limpid radiance here by Rachel Willis-Sørensen, it is one of those passages that imbue the opera’s convoluted plot and impassioned, but one-dimensional characters with a depth that few ...

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

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Gianandrea Noseda conducts Verdi's Il Trovatore ...

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 ...

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 ... Giacomo Sagripanti conducted the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House with ...

Adele Thomas’s Trovatore is a workout that stuns the stage in the first ... Maybe this is partly Verdi’s fault – his choruses really pack a punch and draw in any opera-goer, but for the love scenes to ...

When Adele Thomas’s new production of Verdi’s great warhorse opera Il Trovatore was first seen at Covent Garden in 2023, it had a decidedly mixed reception: my colleague John Allison dismissed it as ...

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An animated revival of Adele Thomas’s 2023 production, Il Trovatore strays from realism ... the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House is on top form with an excellent interpretation of Verdi's ...