| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 29-Jan-2013 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | Efficient Trovatore at the Sydney Opera House |
 Simultaneously one of the most loved and most mocked operas in the canon, Il trovatore has some of Verdi’s catchiest melodies set to one of his silliest plots. Against the backdrop of a 15th-century Spanish war, a cast of nobles, gypsies, nuns and soldiers enact a drama which hinges on that hoariest of dramatic clichés: children swapped at birth.Read full review... | |
| 2-Oct-2012 Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts | Charles Roubaud's Il Trovatore from Canadian Opera Company |
 What do you get when you have a woman being burnt on the stake and her daughter tosses a baby – the wrong baby – on the pyre? The correct answer is Giuseppe Verdi’s incredible melodrama Il Trovatore.
The Canadian Opera Company’s production (borrowed from Opéra de Marseille) eschews melodramatic displays but does provide some thrills. There are also a few gaffes but overall the production does credit to Verdi.
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| 21-Jan-2012 Salle Wilfrid Pelletier | Verdi's Il Trovatore at L'Opéra de Montréal |
 According to the young stage director Oriol Tomas, “We are immersed in an eternal and mythical Spain, as it was perceived in the mid-19th century. It’s got all you could ask for: passion, fire, vengeance, mystery and fratricidal war, along with love, sacrifice, lyricism, and loyalty. A story of impossible love plays out against a backdrop of medieval war.” So the stage was set for this new production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore by Tomas and Opéra de Montréal.
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| 23-Aug-2011 Upstairs at the Gatehouse | Opera London's pub version of Il Trovatore |
 Chamber opera - or, more often, pub opera - seems to be flourishing in London at the moment, with half a dozen companies actively putting on reduced productions. The latest of these to take place at my local theatre is Opera London's version of Il Trovatore, somewhat reduced down to two hours and performed with just a piano. The cuts were done reasonably cleverly - some whole scenes, some batches of a few bars - and mostly worked fine.
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