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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 ...

Lucine Amara, a soprano who sang for four decades with the Metropolitan Opera in New York ... heart of Verdi’s “Aida” and ...

Marco Armiliato conducts a live performance of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," featuring soprano Anna Netrebko, tenor Yonghoon Lee, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick.

Directorial nods and winks undermine the impact of Verdi’s brutal, passionate opera This Verdi work smoulders with trauma. Its wartime action grows from past events narrated from opposing points ...

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 collection of operatic tropes. Italian, numbers opera, Tenor hero, soprano ...

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 ...