(Credit: Javier del Real) To close out its run of “Il Trovatore,” the Teatro Real de Madrid presented a cast featuring Saioa Hernández, Celso Albelo and Artur Ruciński (Marina Rebeka was originally scheduled but cancelled). Celso Albelo who took charge of the title role has an exceptional, unique voice. High voices are lighter and smaller, their middle range is usually {…}
(Photo: MOF) Macerata Opera Festival’s 62nd season opening weekend concluded with a legendary revival of Verdi’s “Il trovatore.” Director Francisco Negrin’s previously staged 2013 and 2016 production features a minimal stage design with dramatic red, black and LED lighting, pyrotechnics, and hidden trap stage doors where the cast appears and disappears in the blink of an eye. The chorus is {…}
Teatro Real de Madrid closed its season with 17 performances of its own production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” There was no fixed casting for the run, especially after the cancellation of Anna Netrebko, with five sopranos, four tenors, three baritones, and five mezzo sopranos rotating across the different performances. OperaWire attended the performance on July 8, which marked the {…}
(Credit: © Javier del Real | Teatro Real) There are operas that cannot be separated from the city where they were born. For Madrid, “Il Trovatore” is exactly that kind of story. It did not begin with Verdi but with a young playwright, Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, who in 1836 presented his play “El Trovador” at Madrid’s Teatro del Principe, inspired {…}
On July 10, the Teatro Real de Madrid is set to stream a performance of “Il Trovatore” on My Opera Player. The cast will include Marina Rebeka, Piotr Beczala, Artur Ruciński, and Ksenia Dudnikova. Nicola Luisotti conducts the production by Francisco Negrín. The stream is part of the Teatro Real’s opera week which will also see the company broadcast past recordings {…}
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) will host a creative learning workshop this August offering audiences a behind the scenes look at its upcoming production of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” The workshop, titled “Decoding Opera — Il Trovatore,” is scheduled for August 22, 2026 and structured around six sessions led by members of the production’s creative and performance teams. Soprano Lai {…}
Anna Netrebko has canceled her four performances of “Il Trovatore” at the Teatro Real de Madrid. In a message, the company said, “Following this Tuesday’s recital at the Teatro Real, Anna Netrebko was unwell due to severe physical exhaustion and vocal fatigue, aggravated by the ongoing extreme weather conditions, as reported by her agent. After examining her, the doctor has {…}
The Sarasota Opera is set to present Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” The production, which is set to be presented between March 7 and 29, 2026, will be revived for the first time since 2014. The company has only performed the work twice including in 1993. In a statement Sarasota Opera General Director Richard Russell said, “It is ‘Il Trovatore’s’ music that {…}
(Photo: Marcello Orselli) The seventeenth of Verdi’s twenty-six operas, “Il trovatore” (1853) is considered the archetypal senseless opera, thanks to its convoluted and highly implausible plot. So absurd is its premise that it was used in the Marx Brothers’ “A Night at the Opera” (1935) to elicit laughs. But despite this, “Il trovatore” has remained one of the most popular {…}
A cast member from the Royal Opera House raised a Palestinian flag on stage during the curtain call on July 19, 2025. According to the Telegraph, the cast member was a ‘Queer dance artist,’ Daniel Perry, who took to the flag during the curtain call of the closing night of the Royal Opera House. The BBC reported that the Royal {…}
The Royal Opera House has announced a cast change for its production of “Il Trovatore.” The company said that Marigona Qerkezi will sing the role of Leonora on July 9, 12, 16, and 19, 2025, replacing Eleonora Buratto. In a statement to social media, Qerkezi said, “I will be making my London Royal Opera House debut as Leonora in Giuseppe {…}