As the story unfolds in one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, the hero is beheaded at the end. A baby is thrown into a burning fire at the beginning. In between are epic battles between armies.

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 ...

Spectacular spectaculars have their pride of place in the opera world, but with its staging of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," the Bregenz Festival raises the stakes by providing vocal as well as actual ...

Houston Grand Opera's "Il Trovatore" lives by the sword. It may die by it, too, depending on how much patience you have for a theatrical device run into the ground. The lights go up on a field of ...

The Sarasota Opera is nearing the final seasons of its remarkable Verdi Cycle, and while we have enjoyed many Verdi rarities, artistic director Victor DeRenzi has waited until this late hour to stage ...

Spellbinding Jamie Barton and company excel in Adele Thomas’s clear-sighted take on volatile Verdi; to the final frontier via Peckham; and kazoos at the ready for a Beano Concerto Jealousy, obsession ...

The Royal Opera House is premiering a new video today at 12pm, featuring members of its chorus reuniting for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Members of the Royal Opera Chorus reunited ...

For those who know Verdi’s Il Trovatore from Opera Australia’s previous dark staging by the late, honoured Elke Neidhardt, Davide Livermore’s new production with digital set by Giò Forma and D-Wok ...

Verdi’s opera of obsession and superstition returns to the Royal Opera House in a production that lights up the stage with ‘anarchic imagination’ (Guardian), combining Hieronymus Bosch-inspired mayhem ...