Il Trovatore

Production de 2003 - Francesca Zambello

• Music

  Giuseppe Verdi
  (1813 - 1901)

• Libretto

  Salvatore Cammarano

• Conductor

  Maurizio Benini

• Director

  Alex Ollé

• Set design

  Alfons Flores

• Costume design

  Lluc Castells

• Lighting design

  Urs Schönebaum

• Chorus master

  José Luis Basso

• Directoc collaboration

  Valentina Carrasco

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.

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

Il Trovatore

Production de 2003 - Francesca Zambello

• Il Conte di Luna

  Željko Lučić

• Vitaliy Bilyy

• Leonora

  Sondra Radvanovsky

• Jennifer Rowley

• Azucena

  Anita Rachvelishvili

• Ekaterina Semenchuk

• Manrico

  Marcelo Alvarez

• Roberto Alagna

• Yusif Eyvazov

• Alfred Kim

• Ferrando

  Mika Kares

• Ines

  Élodie Hache

• Ruiz

  Yu Shao

• Un vecchio Zingaro

  Lucio Prete

• Un Messo

  Luca Sannai