15€ Standard ticket
12€ Cine Albéniz members
Opera en four acts by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano and Leone Emanuele Bardare, based on the drama of the same name by the Spanish playwright Antonio García Gutiérrez
Sung in Italian, with subtitles in Spanish
Recorded at Arena di Verona, 2019
Production Arena Opera Festival
Luca Salsi Count di Luna
Anna Netrebko Leonora
Dolora Zajick Azucena
Yusif Eyvazov Manrico
Riccardo Fassi Ferrando
Elisabetta Zizzo Ines
Carlo Bosi Ruiz
Dario Giorgelè An old gypsy
Antonello Ceron A messenger
Arena di Verona Orchestra, choir and corps de ballet
Conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi
Stage director Franco Zeffirelli
2.45 h (w/intermission)
In her debut at the Verona Arena, the world’s largest open air opera theatre, Anna Netrebko leads a marvellous cast in this production of Verdi’s masterpiece Il trovatore, conducted by Franco Zeffirelli and recorded live at the 97th edition of the Festival dell'Arena di Verona.
Together with Rigoletto and La traviata, Il trovatore forms part of what is commonly known as Verdi’s "popular trilogy". The composer’s favourite themes of destiny and desire are strung together by means of the story of star crossed lovers, Leonora (Netrebko) and Manrico (Yusif Eyvavoz), whose fate is intertwined with that of the Conde di Luna (Luca Salsi) and the gypsy Azucena (played by the legendary American mezzosoprano Dolora Zajick).
15€ Standard ticket
12€ Cine Albéniz members