Il Trovatore

Le Trouvère - Alex Ollé

• Conductor

  Carlo Rizzi; Alessandro Di Stefano

• Music

  Giuseppe Verdi
  (1813 - 1901)

• Libretto

  Salvatore Cammarano

• Director

  Alex Ollé

• Directoc collaboration

  Valentina Carrasco

• Set design

  Alfons Flores

• Costume design

  Lluc Castells

• Lighting design

  Urs Schönebaum

In the wake of Rigoletto, Verdi’s one aspiration was to do something new. Yet despite his eagerness, the project of adapting the Spanish playwright Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez’s El Trovado, a play with a rocambolesque plot set in medieval Spain and featuring troubadours along with a gypsy’s curse, inspired his librettist, Salvatore Cammarano, with only mild enthusiasm. However, Verdi succeeded in transcending this story of love and death through the vertiginous beauty of his music: since its first performance in 1853, this particularly inspired work has become one of the mainstays of the repertoire. Thanks to the clarity of his staging, set amid the noise and fury of a fratricidal war, Àlex Ollé makes night, castles, soldiers, pyres and eternal hatred instantly believable.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Coproduction avec De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam et le Teatro dell’Opera, Roma

Il Trovatore

Le Trouvère - Alex Ollé

• Il Conte di Luna

  Étienne Dupuis

• Leonora

  Anna Pirozzi

• Azucena

  Judit Kutasi

• Manrico

  Yusif Eyvazov

• Ferrando

  Roberto Tagliavini

• Ines

  Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur

• Ruiz

  Samy Camps

• Un vecchio Zingaro

  Shin Jae Kim

• Un Messo

  Chae Hoon Baek