The Houston Grand Opera opened its 2024-25 season on Friday with a new production of Verdi’s "Il Trovatore" that showcased a singing cast of virtuosos, solid orchestral accompaniment, and a modern ...

GRAND RAPIDS – You say opera isn't your cup of tea any more than tea is your cup of tea? Fair enough. Opera is an 18th and 19th century art, in search of a 20th and 21st century audience, an ...

Houston Grand Opera will present a new production of Verdi’s Il trovatore, directed by Stephen Wadsworth, opening on October 18, 2024. The opera unfolds in modern Spain and tells the story of Azucena, ...

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 ...

Audience members at the Pittsburgh Opera production of “Il Trovatore” might be reminded of a popular medieval fantasy television series. “In many ways, the setting and staging of ‘Il Trovatore’ feels ...

"She's the crux of where bel canto beautiful singing meets drama," is how mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis describes her role as Azucena, the Romani woman whose tragic life has only been made worse ...

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 ...

LA Opera opens its 2021/22 season on September 18, 2021, with Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore, marking its official return to fully staged productions for in-person audiences for the first time since ...

A gypsy woman is burnt at the stake accused of bewitching one of Count di Luna’s twin sons. Her daughter, Azucena, vows to avenge her death and acts impulsively with tragic consequences. Fifteen years ...