Simultaneously one of the most loved and most mocked operas in the canon, Il trovatore has some of Verdi’s catchiest melodies set to one of his silliest plots. Against the backdrop of a 15th-century ...

Placido Domingo was brilliant as Manrico, with his charisma and commanding stage presence as well as that magnificent voice of his. Raina Kabaivanska has done a number of truly excellent performances, ...

Placido Domingo was brilliant as Manrico, with his charisma and commanding stage presence as well as that magnificent voice of his. Raina Kabaivanska has done a number of truly excellent performances, ...

Opera Colorado is performing the Italian opera, Il Trovatore, in a concert format. The four act classic is shortened to 90-minutes, but still brings all the drama of the original. "You would think ...

Performance Dates: Feb. 22-28, 2026 Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” stars Artur Rucinski, Pretty Yende, Alexandra Marcellier, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Piero Pretti, and Evgeny Stavinsky. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts ...

Il Trovatore can seem at first like a parodistic collection of operatic tropes. Italian, numbers opera, Tenor hero, soprano ...

Plácido Domingo (born January 21, 1941) is a famous Spanish opera singer. Though he started off his career as a baritone in zarzuelas, he quickly retrained as a tenor and became well-known for a ...

And then after “Puritani” I did a wonderful production of “Il Trovatore.” It was legendary. So, I have sung my best Figaro and Count di Luna at Teatro Real, so you can imagine how I feel about this ...

"Maester Placido Domingo gave me lessons and scholarship," Chacón-Cruz said. "I studied with the greatest of the greatest and I feel like I didn't deserve it at the time. I was so young.

"They were doing this opera Il Trovatore 20 years ago," he said. "I said to my wife, then fiancé, 'wouldn't that be awesome if I can sing that here one day,' and 20 years to the day, it's happened.