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: Gregory Kunde
Count di Luna: Vladimir Stoyanov*
Ferrando: Morris Robinson
Creative team:
Conductor: James Conlon
Production: Francisco Negrin
Set and Costume Designer: Louis Désiré*
Original Lighting Designer: Bruno Poet
Chorus Director: Grant Gershon
Choreographer: Aszure Barton*
* LA Opera debut
Performance dates and times:
Saturday, September 18, 2021, at 6pm
Wednesday, September 22, 2021, at 7:30pm
Saturday, September 25, 2021, at 7:30pm
Sunday, October 3, 2021, at 2pm
Wednesday, October 6, 2021, at 7:30pm
Sunday, 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: July 28, 2020
