Verdi's Il Trovatore returns to the Met on October 26 with a slate of Met role debuts. Sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Angela Meade share the role of Leonora, with Willis-Sørensen making her Met ...

Tenor Brian Vu and mezzo-soprano Anne Maguire in Il Trovatore at Opera in the Heights. Credit: Photo by Pin Lim If you think the art of opera is dying, I turn your attention to Opera in the Heights ...

When Adele Thomas’s new production of Verdi’s great warhorse opera Il Trovatore was first seen at Covent Garden in 2023, it had a decidedly mixed reception: my colleague John Allison dismissed it as ...

Nobody goes to “Il Trovatore” for the plot. The Verdi opera’s improbable story line is famously ripe for parody (most notably by the Marx Brothers and by Gilbert & Sullivan), and it presents some ...

Enrico Caruso is quoted as saying, “all it takes for successful performance of ‘Il Trovatore’ is the four greatest singers in the world.” How one determines out of the large cast of current “great ...

Opera Colorado is performing the Italian opera, Il Trovatore, in a concert format. The four act classic is shortened to 90-minutes, but still brings all the drama of the original. "You would think ...

The fat lady in blonde braids and a horned helmet came from Wagner, but most every other popular opera cliché can be traced to Verdi’s 1853 melodrama Il trovatore. If Verdi didn’t invent them, he ...