Il Trovatore Heroine

The Met: Live in HD 15-16 - Il Trovatore Trailer

The MET: Live in HD 2018 Special Encore - Il Trovatore

Verdi: Italian Romanticism and Il Trovatore

Curtain Call Il Trovatore MET 10 03 15

Curtain Call. Il Trovatore with Marco Armiliato, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yonghoon Lee, Dolora Zajick, Anna Netrebko. 10.03.15 Anna Netrebko takes on her next new role at the Met as Leonora, the heroine who sacrifices her life for the love of the troubadour Manrico, sung by Yonghoon Lee. Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Count di Luna and Dolora Zajick sings Azucena. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production. “Ms. Netrebko...

The Met Opera s Peter Gelb Anna Netrebko and Bartlett Sher Clip TimesTalks

Join acclaimed opera soprano Anna Netrebko, who stars this fall as Verdi heroine Leonora in “Il Trovatore,” award–winning director Bartlett Sher, whose “Otello” will open the new season, and The Metropolitan Opera’s general manager Peter Gelb, commemorating his first 10 years at The Met. Moderated by New York Times classical music and dance reporter Michael Cooper.

Paris Opera Ballet IL TROVATORE in cinemas

Rather than true characters – excepting perhaps Azucena the Gypsy, who guards the secret that will destroy them all – the music portrays almost abstract figures consumed by passion. Originally intended by Verdi to be a secondary role, Leonora takes on the status of a sacrificial heroine. Her fourth-act cavatina “D’amor sull’ali rosee” is not so much a farewell as an Assumption. Anna Netrebko carries this enraptured music to new heights. She is...

Curtain Call Il Trovatore with Marco Armiliato Dmitri Hvorostovsky Yonghoon Lee Dolora Zajick A

Curtain Call Il Trovatore with Marco Armiliato, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yonghoon Lee, Dolora Zajick, Anna Netrebko 09.29.15 in MET. Anna Netrebko takes on her next new role at the Met as Leonora, the heroine who sacrifices her life for the love of the troubadour Manrico, sung by Yonghoon Lee. Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Count di Luna and Dolora Zajick sings Azucena. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production. “Ms....

IL TROVATORE Live from Opera De Paris in Movies Dundrum

In the aftermath of Rigoletto, Verdi’s sole desire was to do something new. However, he became impatient, angry even, when the project to adapt El Trovador, the play by the Spanish dramatist Antonio García Gutiérrez, aroused only guarded enthusiasm from Salvatore Cammarano, his librettist, and the man to whom Donizetti owed in part the success of Lucia di Lammermoor. Was it due to the libretto's inordinately improbable storyline or the illness...

IL TROVATORE Live from Opera De Paris in Movies Gorey

In the aftermath of Rigoletto, Verdi’s sole desire was to do something new. However, he became impatient, angry even, when the project to adapt El Trovador, the play by the Spanish dramatist Antonio García Gutiérrez, aroused only guarded enthusiasm from Salvatore Cammarano, his librettist, and the man to whom Donizetti owed in part the success of Lucia di Lammermoor. Was it due to the libretto's inordinately improbable storyline or the illness...

Anna Bolena Coppia iniqua Anna Netrebko

Anna Netrebko sings the title heroine's cabaletta from the mad scene from Act II of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena." Production: David McVicar. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Clip taken from the 2011 Live in HD transmission.

Iva Pacetti D amor sull ali rosee IL TROVATORE Giuseppe Verdi

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. Iva Pacetti--soprano no recording information =============== "Iva Pacetti (13 December 1898, Prato - 19 January 1981, Milan) was an Italian operatic soprano who had an active international career from 1920 to 1947. Trained in Florence and Milan, she made her professional opera debut in her native city at the age of 21 as the title heroine in Giuseppe...

Angel Blue Hometown Heroine

Hometown heroine Angel Blue is back and better than ever in #LAOTosca. Little did we know, this role is a full-circle moment dating back to her time as a Young Artist when she appeared onstage with Sondra Radvanovsky in "Suor Angelica." Watch to learn all about Angel's homecoming.

Beniamino Gigli Cloe Elmo Ai nostri monti IL TROVATORE Giuseppe Verdi

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ================ Beniamino Gigli--tenor Cloe Elmo--mezzo-soprano Orchestra 1940 ================== "Beniamino Gigli Born: March 20, 1890 Died: November 30, 1957 Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli was the foremost Italian tenor of the 1920s through the 1940s, possessed of a smooth, lush voice with a lyric sweetness often described as “honeyed.” He became a...

Curtain Call in Il Trovatore Anita Rachvelishvili Marco Armiliato Quinn Kelsey 01 26 18

Verdi’s blazing depiction of life on the edge returns in Sir David McVicar’s compelling production, featuring Jennifer Rowley as the noble heroine, Leonora, Yonghoon Lee as the troubadour who loves her, Quinn Kelsey and Luca Salsi as his rival, and Anita Rachvelishvili as the gypsy Azucena, whose bloodthirsty curse propels the story. Marco Armiliato conducts.

The Story of Tosca

Learn about the story of Floria Tosca, the famous opera singer, who seems to have it all. Audiences cherish her artistry—and adore hearing about her tempestuous offstage romances. But as storms of repression and rebellion rage throughout Italy, the diva is forced to play a real-life role she never imagined. Torn between devotion to her lover and the machinations of a treacherous sociopath who will do anything in his power to break her down,...