Il trovatore

Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano after the play El Trovador by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez

First performance: Teatro Apollo, Rome, January 19 1853

First performance at the Israeli opera: January 11, 2007

Conductor		Massimiliano Stefaneli
		Omer M. Wellber
Director		Stephen Lawless
Revival Director		Micha Handel
Set Designer		Benoit Dugardyn
Costume Designer		Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting Designer		Joan Sullivan Gent
Lighting Revival		Michael Mcnamara

Soloists
Manrico		Pierro Giuliacci
		Vladimir Kuzmenko
Leonora		Michéle Crider
		Annalisa Raspagliosi
Count Di Luna		Albert Schagidullin
		Christopher Robertson
Azucena		Tea Demurishvili
		Svetlana Sandler
Ferrando		Vladimir Braun
Ruiz		Sami Bechar
Old Gypsy		Sorin Semillian
Messenger		Boris Yerufeyev
Inez		Ira Bertman

The Israeli Opera Chorus

Conductor Leonti Wolf

The Opera Orchestra - The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion

Surtitles: Israel Ouval

Sung in Italian

Surtitles in English and Hebrew

A mysterious troubadour and gypsies entangled in mistaken identities. The story of Count di Luna who courts the lady Leonora who is in love with a mysterious troubadour. One of Verdi's most beloved opera reaches the stage of the Israeli Opera for the first time in a coproduction with the Los Angeles and Washington DC opera houses.

Synopsis

Production Album

Dates

Thurs 11.1 (20:00), Fri 12.1 (13:00), Sat 13.1 (20:00), Mon 15.1 (20:00),

Tues 16.1 (20:00), Wed 17.1 (20:00), Fri 19.1 (13:00), Sat 20.1 (20:00),

Sun 21.1 (20:00), Mon 22.1 (20:00), Thurs 25.1 (20:00), Fri 26.1 (13:00),

Sat 27.1 (20:00)

Towards opening: Sat 6.1 (11:00)

Before the show back stage tours: Tues 16.1 (19:00), Sun 21.1 (19:00), Thurs 25.1 (19:00)

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