Il Trovatore

Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna (IT) 2024
2024
Completed
Opera

A story which mixes nobles and outcasts, superstition and violence, touching on the dark sides of feelings.

Il Trovatore according to Davide Livermore arrives at the Comunale Nouveau in Bologna until Sunday 25 February.
On the podium Renato Palumbo, leading a cast composed of Roberto Aronica in the role of Manrico, Marta Torbidoni in the role of Leonora, Lucas Meachem in the role of Conte di Luna and Chiara Mogini in the role of Azucena, who alternate - only for the performance of February 21st - with Zi-Zhao Guo, Federica Vitali, Angelo Veccia and Cristina Melis. The vocal team is completed by Gianluca Buratto (Ferrando), Benedetta Mazzetto (Ines) and Cristiano Olivieri (Ruiz). The Orchestra and Choir, prepared by Gea Garatti Ansini, are those of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna.

The director, who from 2018 to 2021 directed and designed, together with Gio Forma, the staging of four consecutive inaugurations of the Teatro alla Scala, now returns to collaborate with the Comunale after Idomeneo in 2010 and Il Turco in Italia in 2017.

In the creative team alongside him there is Carlo Sciaccaluga, who resumes directing Il Trovatore in Bologna, Giò Forma who takes care of the scenes, D-Wok the videos, Anna Verde the costumes and Antonio Castro the lights.

Famous page of the "Popular Trilogy", composed after Rigoletto and before La Traviata, the lyric drama in four parts and eight scenes based on El trovador by Antonio García-Gutiérrez, with a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, was performed at the Apollo Theater in Rome on January 19, 1853 enjoying enormous success. Each character in Il Trovatore tells a story, which mixes nobles and outcasts, superstition and violence, touching on the dark sides of feelings.

Il Trovatore
Opera in four acts
from El trovador by Antonio García-Gutiérrez
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano [and Leone Emanuele Bardare]
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Director Renato Palumbo
Directed by Davide Livermore
The Choir Master Gea Garatti AnsiniDirected by Carlo Sciaccaluga
Scenes Giò Forma
Video D-Wok
Costumes by Anna Verde
Lights Antonio Castro
Assistant director Giulia Caci
Foto Andrea Ranzi

New production of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna with the Teatro Regio of Parma
Orchestra, Choir and Technicians of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna

Il Trovatore staging: a crowded circus scene with performers on metal stairs under a faded big-top tent – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set design
Chorus crowding a stage set with hospital beds before a blood-red sky backdrop – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set designSingers standing on a wet stage in front of a huge brutalist concrete building under a stormy sky – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set design
Soprano seated beside a pile of sacks in a stark room of grey stone blocks, a singer watching from the right – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set design
Two singers seated apart at night amid a circus set of tents, fairy lights and metal scaffolding – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set designTwo singers facing each other on a dark stage with metal stairs, tarpaulins and a ruined city skyline behind – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set design
Chorus around hospital beds on a dark stage, with a projected icy white storm filling the backdrop – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set design
Nurses in pale uniforms around hospital beds inside a derelict industrial hall with tall windows – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set design
Il Trovatore staging: a crowded circus scene with performers on metal stairs under a faded big-top tent – Il Trovatore at Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy, 2024 – opera set design