Il trovatore: "Di quella pira"
The second Verdi's title of the 2018/19 season is one of the most popular in all opera repertoire: Il Trovatore. In a new production of the Teatro Real, Maurizio Benini conducts two casts of renowned Verdi stars: Ludovic Tézier, Maria Agresta, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Francesco Meli and Roberto Tagliavini, among many others. The complicated story, based on the play by Antonio García Gutiérrez, is told here in a big production by Francisco Negrín, in which he highlights the dramatic and enormous tension in this Verdi masterpiece.
Dramma in four parts
Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the theatre play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez
Premiered at the Teatro Apollo di Roma, on January 19, 1853
Premiered at the Teatro Real on February 16, 1854
Coproduction of theTeatro Real with the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Royal Danish Opera
Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Artistic team
Conductor I Maurizio Benini
Stage director I Francisco Negrín
Set and costume designer I Louis Desiré
Lighting designer I Bruno Poet
Chorus master I Andrés Máspero
Cast
Conte di Luna I Ludovic Tézier
Leonora I Maria Agresta
Azucena I Ekaterina Semenchuk
Manrico I Francesco Meli
Ferrando I Roberto Tagliavini
Ines I Cassandre Berthon
Ruiz I Fabián Lara
A messenger I Moisés Marín