Il Trovatore, Opera Bastille, Paris: 21 January-17 February 2023

The most popular opera of its time, acclaimed as of its premiere performance, Il Trovatore illustrates all the magic of romantic bel canto. With its endless twists and turns the opera combines all the ingredients of a cloak-and-dagger novel: castles, soldiers, pyres, outlaws... Carlo Rizzi conducts an ensemble of great voices including Yusif Eyvazov, Anna Pirozzi, Quinn Quelsey and Judit Kutasi. Àlex Ollé has chosen to set the action of Il Trovatore against the backdrop of the First World War, thus warranting the extreme situations faced by the characters.

• Il Trovatore

  Opera in four parts (1853)

  After Antonio García Gutiérrez

  • Music:

    Giuseppe Verdi - (1813 - 1901)

  • Libretto:

    Salvatore Cammarano

  • Conductor:

    Carlo Rizzi

  • Chorus master:

    Alessandro Di Stefano

  • Director:

    Alex Ollé

  • Directoc collaboration:

    Valentina Carrasco

  • Set design:

    Alfons Flores

  • Costume design:

    Lluc Castells

  • Lighting design:

    Urs Schönebaum

  Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
  Coproduction avec De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam et le Teatro dell’Opera, Roma

• Cast

  • Leonora:

    • Anna Pirozzi

  • Ines:

    • Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur

  • Azucena:

    • Judit Kutasi

  • Il Conte di Luna:

    • Quinn Kelsey

  • Ferrando:

    • Roberto Tagliavini

  • Manrico:

    • Yusif Eyvazov

  • Ruiz:

    • Samy Camps

  • Un vecchio Zingaro:

    • Shin Jae Kim

  • Un Messo:

    • Chae Hoon Baek