This burning tale of witchcraft, murder and recompense demands four of the world’s most powerful voices.
Blinded by rage as her mother burns at the stake, Azucena throws the executioner’s child into the flames. But in the darkness, she has made a fatal mistake, and it is her own child that burns. She seizes the executioner’s child and raises him as her own: a family secret that will haunt the next generation until their deaths.
Verdi had a taste for high drama, and IL Trovatore has all the hallmarks of a great story, enhanced by monumental digital stagecraft: a love triangle, an intergenerational quest for revenge, and a woman willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the man she loves.
But the real attraction lies in the sensational music: from the famous Anvil Chorus to the series of stunning arias penned for the four leads. It is some of Verdi’s finest music, and demands the finest of voices.
Hear the incomparable Leah Crocetto as Leonora, Elena Gabouri as the haunted Azucena, audience favourite Yonghoon Lee as the title character Manrico and Maksim Aniskin as Count di Luna.
2hrs 25min (inc interval)
15th July, 2022
30th July, 2022
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Conductor: Andrea Battistoni
Director: Davide Livermore
Set Designer: Giò Forma
Costume Designer: Gianluca Falaschi
Lighting Designer: John Rayment
Cast:
MANRICO: Yonghoon Lee
LEONORA: Leah Crocetto
AZUCENA: Elena Gabouri
COUNT DI LUNA: Maksim Aniskin
FERRANDO: David Parkin
INEZ: Sian Sharp
RUIZ: Iain Henderson
OLD GYPSY: Luke Gabbedy
MESSENGER: Thomas Strong
Opera Australia Chorus
Opera Australia Orchestra
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