The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with Verdi's "Il Trovatore" (The Troubadour).
Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the unbending Count di Luna, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the soldier Ferrando. Italian conductor Daniele Callegari leads the ensembles in a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera.
From the Met: "Verdi’s turbulent tragedy of four characters caught in a web of family ties, politics and love is a mainstay of the operatic repertory. The score is as melodic as it is energetic, with infectious tunes that are not easily forgotten.
"The vigorous music accompanies a dark and disturbing tale that revels in many of the most extreme expressions of Romanticism, including violent shifts in tone, unlikely coincidences and characters who are impelled by raw emotion rather than cool logic."
Read the synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera.
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano with additions by Leone Emanuele Bardare
CAST
Leonora: Rachel Willis-Sørensen
Azucena: Jamie Barton
Manrico: Michael Fabiano
Count di Luna: Igor Golovatenko
Ferrando: Ryan Speedo Green
