Il trovatore

Recreating reality is all well and good, says Verdi, "but inventing reality is better, far better." And what a reality is invented: Exchanged children, avenged mothers, sacrificed lovers... An almost mythical tale full of incredible twists and turns that repeatedly put the characters in states of emergency. Verdi was concerned with the credibility of the emotions, not the plot. Singing as utopia, as the opening up of a space that does not exist in recreated reality. In his production of Verdi's Troubadour opera, Paul-Georg Dittrich embarks on a search for this moment.

Dramma lirico in four parts
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano and Leone Emanuele Bardare
based on El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez

by Giuseppe Verdi