ROH: Il Trovatore

Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse from the past will rise up from the ashes with devastating implications for them all.

Starring Ludovic Tézier and Jamie Barton, Adele Thomas’s energetic staging sets Verdi’s tale in a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired universe of medieval superstition. Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s dramatic score, which features the famous ‘Anvil’ chorus.

• Music: Giuseppe Verdi
• Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano
• Director: Adele Thomas
• Designer: Annemarie Woods
• Lighting designer: Franck Evin
• Choreographer: Emma Woods
• Conducted by: Antonio Pappano
• Leonora: TBC
• Manrico: Yusif Eyvazov
• Count di Luna: Ludovic Tézier
• Azucena: Jamie Barton
• Ferrando: Roberto Tagliavini
• Royal Opera Chorus
• Orchestra of the Royal Opera House