23rd January

Concert will begin at 00:25 hours GMT

Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' with Kocán, Kelsey, Rowley, Lee and Rachvelishvili from New York

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Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' is an opera in four acts to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. Ferrando, the captain of the guards, orders his men to keep watch while Count di Luna wanders restlessly beneath the windows of Leonora, lady-in-waiting to the Princess. Di Luna loves Leonora and is jealous of his successful rival, a troubadour whose identity he does not know. In order to keep the guards awake, Ferrando narrates the history of the count: many years ago, a gypsy was wrongfully accused of having bewitched the youngest of the di Luna children; the child had fallen sick and for this the gypsy had been burnt alive as a witch, her protests of innocence ignored. Performers:

Leonora: Jennifer Rowley.
Azucena: Anita Rachvelishvili.
Manrico: Yonghoon Lee.
di Luna: Quinn Kelsey.
Ferrando: Stefan Kocán.

Metropolitan Opera House Choir and Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.

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