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Il trovatore

Opéra Bastille - from 28 January to 15 March 2016

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Il trovatore

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Opera Giuseppe Verdi

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Opéra Bastille - from 28 January to 15 March 2016

2h55 with 1 interval

Language : Italian

About

In few words:

"May the radiance of her gaze calm the tempest in my heart."
- Il Trovatore, Act II, scene 2

In the aftermath of Rigoletto, Verdi’s sole desire was to do something new. However, he became impatient, angry even, when the project to adapt El Trovador, the play by the Spanish dramatist Antonio García Gutiérrez, aroused only guarded enthusiasm from Salvatore Cammarano, his librettist, and the man to whom Donizetti owed in part the success of Lucia di Lammermoor. Was it due to the libretto's inordinately improbable storyline or the illness that would ultimately consume him that the poet left the libretto unfinished? Despite the urgings of the irrepressible Verdi, Cammarano would not yield. Herein lies the paradox of Il Trovatore: in the eyes of its detractors it was the epitome of melodrama and yet the formal constraints imposed by Cammarano fanned the flames of the composer’s passions.

Rather than true characters – excepting perhaps Azucena the Gypsy, who guards the secret that will destroy them all – the music portrays almost abstract figures consumed by passion. Originally intended by Verdi to be a secondary role, Leonora takes on the status of a sacrificial heroine. Her fourth-act cavatina “D’amor sull’ali rosee” is not so much a farewell as an Assumption. Anna Netrebko carries this enraptured music to new heights. She is accompanied by Ekaterina Semenchuk, Marcelo Alvarez and Ludovic Tézier, in a new production by Alex Ollé.

Il Trovatore

Opera in four parts (1853)

After Antonio García Gutiérrez

Music :

Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto :

Salvatore Cammarano

Conductor :

Daniele Callegari

Director :

Àlex Ollé

Set design :

Alfons Flores

Costume design :

Lluc Castells

Lighting design :

Urs Schönebaum

Chorus master :

José Luis Basso
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Coproduction with De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam

French and English surtitles
Il Conte di Luna :

Ludovic Tézier

28 jan. > 29 fév.

Vitaliy Bilyy

3 > 15 mars

Leonora :

Anna Netrebko

28 jan. > 15 fév.

Hui He

20 fév. > 15 mars

Azucena :

Ekaterina Semenchuk

28, 31 janv., 3, 8, 11, 15, 20, 24, 29 fév.

Luciana D'Intino

27 fév., 3, 6, 10, 15 mars

Manrico :

Marcelo Alvarez

31 janv., 3, 8, 11, 15, 20, 24, 27 fév., 6, 10, 15 mars

Yusif Eyvazov

29 fév., 3 mars

Ferrando :

Roberto Tagliavini

28 jan. > 24 fév.

Liang Li

27 fév. > 15 mars

Ines :

Marion Lebègue

Ruiz :

Oleksiy Palchykov

Un vecchio zingaro :

Constantin Ghircau

Un messo :

Cyrille Lovighi

Representations

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« Il Trovatore » - Trailer

Audio clips

Podcast | Il Trovatore - Giuseppe Verdi

About the work

Podcast Il Trovatore

By France Musique
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Partners

Sponsor of La Cenerentola’

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Sponsor of the Paris Opera initiatives for young people and of the avant-premières

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With the support of AROP

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This production will be recorded for television.

A coproduction by the Paris Opera, Telmondis and Mezzo with support from the CNC and directed by Vincent Massip.
Broadcast in cinemas live on 11 February and on Mezzo on 18 June.

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