The Royal Opera - Il Trovatore

Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse from the past will rise up from the ashes with devastating implications for them all.

Starring Ludovic Tézier and Jamie Barton, Adele Thomas’s energetic staging sets Verdi’s tale in a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired universe of medieval superstition. Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s dramatic score, which features the famous ‘Anvil’ chorus.

Music: Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano

Director: Adele Thomas

Designer: Annemarie Woods

Lighting designer: Franck Evin

Choreographer: Emma Woods

Conducted by: Antonio Pappano

Leonora: TBC

Manrico: Yusif Eyvazov

Count di Luna: Ludovic Tézier

Azucena: Jamie Barton

Ferrando: Roberto Tagliavini

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House



A co-production with Opernhaus Zürich.

Sung in Italian with English subtitles.