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 ...

Everything that's right about romantic Italian opera, and everything that's wrong, comes into focus in Verdi's Il Trovatore. The plotline cries out for parody, and has been handsomely treated in that ...

Mezzo-soprano Irina Mishura, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Marcello Giordani star in Houston Grand Opera's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore, from the Wortham Theater Center. Radvanovsky was ...

Enrico Caruso is quoted as saying, “all it takes for successful performance of ‘Il Trovatore’ is the four greatest singers in the world.” How one determines out of the large cast of current “great ...

Giuseppe Verdi composed some of the greatest operas ever – La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello and many others ...

I must admit that the Met’s current revival of IL TROVATORE--with RIGOLETTO and TRAVIATA, considered the great creations of Verdi’s middle period--made me think of another masterwork, “A Night at the ...

You’re not there for the plot. It’s Verdi’s music that irresistibly draws opera lovers to “Il Trovatore” (“The Troubadour”), which boasts one hit tune after another. It has one of the world’s most ...

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.

When Adele Thomas’s new production of Verdi’s great warhorse opera Il Trovatore was first seen at Covent Garden in 2023, it had a decidedly mixed reception: my colleague John Allison dismissed it as ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with “Il Trovatore,” Verdi’s classic tragedy of a love triangle and family vendetta colliding ...