27 Feb 2011
Il Trovatore, WNO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/27/il-trovatore-opera-review
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/27/il-trovatore-opera-review
By Rian Evans [The Guardian, 27 February 2011]
This opera by Verdi was always notorious for having a complicated, if not incomprehensible, plot, but surtitles help fix that - sort of. In 15th-century Spain, a baritone and a tenor who don't know they're brothers are rivals both in war and love. The outcome can only be tragic, but the music is middle-period Verdi at his most flowing and this cast delivered with real conviction.