2018 / AROP evening / Opera

27 Jun.

Le Trouvère

Opéra Bastille

19h30

Duration

2h45

Dress Cocktail attire

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1st part

19h30

Intermission cocktail

20h40

2nd part

21h10

End of the performance

22h15

The sky is their roof, their country the world.- Azucena, Acte III, Scène 4

How does one approach Il Trovatore – the most popular opera of its day and a swashbuckling tale of love and death over which looms a gypsy’s curse – without singeing one’s wings in the flames of its flamboyantly extravagant plot? For this work sums up the magic of opera, the way in which a dense and complex libretto abounding in dramatic twists can be transcended by the vertiginous beauty of a vocal line. And by the coherence of the production too: Àlex Ollé transposes the drama to a furious war that sets brother against brother: suddenly night, castles, soldiers, eternal hatred and the stake all become realities.

Il Trovatore

Production de 2003 - Francesca Zambello