The absurd plot of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” is a distraction best left unexplained and unexcused. Put simply, the opera concerns a romantic triangle between a woman and two men, one of whom is a mama’s ...

How to describe the much-maligned plot of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” (“The Troubadour”)? No one could do this job more succinctly in a single sentence than Robert Lindenberger in The Opera Quarterly, who ...

The mob of horrified faces on the curtain (by set designer Charles Edwards) that rises on Lyric Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore sets the mood for the story to come. It’s grim—a ...

Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” showcases classic operatic performances. Tenor Carl Tanner stars as Manrico. During the opera’s first three years alone, it was staged in six theaters in Naples and nearly 300 ...

When it comes to the plot of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore - which revolves around a love triangle, murder, and revenge - audiences are advised to suspend their disbelief and enjoy the music. A ...

No opera -- this side of Wagner's "Ring," anyhow -- brooks more deserved ridicule for its plot absurdity than "Il Trovatore." No opera surmounts these absurdities -- long-lost siblings, mistaken ...