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 ...

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

Nobody goes to “Il Trovatore” for the plot. The Verdi opera’s improbable story line is famously ripe for parody (most notably by the Marx Brothers and by Gilbert & Sullivan), and it presents some ...

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 ...

Verdi’s thrilling depiction of life on the edge features Maria Agresta as the noble heroine, Leonora, Yonghoon Lee as the troubadour who loves her, Quinn Kelsey as his rival, and Anita Rachvelishvili ...

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’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 ...

Conductor Gianandrea Noseda's febrile, focused musicality helps Bösch and his team deliver the essence of this tricky masterpiece. The even harder-to-find Verdi mezzo is best of all. Ekaterina ...

The fat lady in blonde braids and a horned helmet came from Wagner, but most every other popular opera cliché can be traced to Verdi’s 1853 melodrama Il trovatore. If Verdi didn’t invent them, he ...

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 ...