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IL TROVATORE

Giuseppe Verdi

Opéra Bastille - from 28 January to 15 March 2016

New show 2h55 with 1 interval
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    Il Trovatore

    Opera in four parts (1853)

    Music
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Libretto
    Salvatore Cammarano

    After Antonio García Gutiérrez

    Conductor
    Daniele Callegari
    Director
    Àlex Ollé
    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
    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
    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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    "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.

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