The Metropolitan Opera hasn’t had much luck with Il Trovatore, said Mike Silverman ... of men swinging hammers onto anvils during the “Anvil Chorus” that is both dance-like and enthralling.

Il Trovatore can seem at first like a parodistic ... flanked by daemonic loping lackeys and the gypsy army in the anvil ...

There is a moment at the end of the first half of Il trovatore that changes everything ... to engage with each other this time, but the chorus and dancers are as distracting as before.

Adele Thomas’s Trovatore is a workout that stuns the stage in the first ... Four acrobatic dancers create a animalistic creepy backdrop to the drama, cartwheeling through the Anvil’s chorus and ...