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

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 ...

David Bosch's atmospheric production of Verdi's famous opera of love, cruelty, intense passion and revenge. With Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Lianna Haroutounian and ...

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 ...

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

however, the musical quality and the competence of the performers is more than enough to earn Thomas’s production a recommendation. Il Trovatore is at the Royal Ballet And Opera until 19 July 2025 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Il Trovatore can seem at first like a parodistic ... Giacomo Sagripanti conducted the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House with ...