Production new to Los Angeles
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez
World premiere: January 19, 1853, at the Teatro Apollo (Rome, Italy)
A co-production of Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Teatro Real (Madrid) and Royal Danish Opera (Copenhagen).
LA Opera has previously produced Il Trovatore in 1998 and 2004.
(Originally scheduled for the fall of 2020, Il Trovatore was postponed to the fall of 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Cast:
Leonora: Guanqun Yu
Azucena: Raehann Bryce-Davis
Manrico: Limmie Pulliam* (Sep. 18-Oct. 3)
Manrico: Gregory Kunde (Oct. 6-10)
Count di Luna: Vladimir Stoyanov*
Ferrando: Morris Robinson
Ruiz: Anthony Ciaramitaro†
Ines: Tiffany Townsend†
Messenger: Orson Van Gay II
Ghost of Azucena's Mother: Christian Scott*
Ghost of Azucena's Son: Jimmy Harris*
Creative team:
Conductor: James Conlon
Production: Francisco Negrin
Set and Costume Designer: Louis Désiré*
Lighting Designer: Bruno Poet
Chorus Director: Grant Gershon
Fight Director: Andrew Kenneth Moss*
Livestream Director: Sara E. Widzer
* LA Opera debut
† Member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program
Performance dates and times:
September 18, 2021, at 6pm
September 22, 2021, at 7:30pm
September 25, 2021, at 7:30pm
October 3, 2021, at 2pm (also livestreamed)
October 6, 2021, at 7:30pm (also livestreamed)
October 10, 2021, at 2pm
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
Estimated running time: two hours, 45 minutes, including one intermission
Venue: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012)
All programs, artists and dates are subject to change.
Last updated: October 7, 2021
