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 ...

Tenor Brian Vu and mezzo-soprano Anne Maguire in Il Trovatore at Opera in the Heights. Credit: Photo by Pin Lim If you think the art of opera is dying, I turn your attention to Opera in the Heights ...

As the story unfolds in one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, the hero is beheaded at the end. A baby is thrown into a burning fire at the beginning. In between are epic battles between armies.

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opening was a wake-up call. Raymond Aceto sang Ferrando’s narration vividly, the men’s chorus was vigorous ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) was the third opera presented at the Metropolitan Opera House on October 26 in 1883, the year the New York City opera house was founded. Il Trovatore had ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It is best not to try pinning down the logic in Verdi’s Il trovatore. In his 2002 production director Elijah ...