The story of Il Trovatore at the Bolshoi Theatre is old and eventful. He successfully performs at the opera houses in Spain, Italy, Germany and the USA, being a recognized interpreter of the Verdi repertoire.
Maestro Jordi Bernàcer, a conductor of Spanish origin, who in one capacity or another (mostly as an assistant) has collaborated with outstanding masters of the conducting art, including such significant figures as Riccardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev and Zubin Meta, became Music Director. Oleg Dolgov, also engaged in all but a few of the opera performances and premieres at the Bolshoi, was remembered by the Moscow public for his performances as Manrico at the Novaya Opera and as part of the State Symphony Cappella of Russia. He has performed it at the Novaya Opera (Moscow), the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre (Kazan), The Latvian National Opera (Riga), the Opéra de Lille (France), the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and the Bavarian State Opera (Munich). She was also invited to perform in the production at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.Īs for Igor Golovatenko, one of the leading baritones of the Bolshoi and a guest soloist at the major opera houses of the world, Count di Luna is one of his star roles. Her debut in Il Trovatore took place at the end of last year. The role of Azucena is performed by Ksenia Dudnikova, a young singer rapidly gaining international fame, a participant in all the theatre’s recent premieres, and who, since the last season, has been a soloist with the Bolshoi Opera troupe.
She has recently performed this part in Barcelona at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, having repeated that brilliant success which followed her performance from a few years earlier at the premiere of the opera Il Trovatore at the Teatro Real in Madrid. The part of Leonora is sung by Hibla Gerzmava, the favourite of music lovers the world over. Some choirs turned out to be in demand even by mass culture and burst out to the people from their television screens.Ĭoncert performances at the Bolshoi brought together a star cast. It is loved by singers and choirmasters it is the richest material for the four types of voices and choir.
Heated passions, the main characters’ desire to defend their freedom, the inability to banish the ghosts of the past and the inevitability of retribution, expressed in bright, memorable melodies, invariably “force” the audience to listen, and theatres – to stage this opera.
The latter came to this opera immediately, at the premiere, held in Rome in 1853. Il Trovatore, along with Rigoletto and La Traviata, is included in the so-called triad, which marks the beginning of the period of the composer’s creative maturity, and practically is not inferior to them in popularity.
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