Il Trovatore - Giuseppe Verdi

There's no need to tell the story of Le Trouvère, it's incomprehensible.

Verdi wanted passionate feelings, and they abound in this dark melodrama requiring four first-rate singers. After Rigoletto, the father-daughter opera, Il Trovatore is a mother-son opera. Above all, it is a prodigious repository of arias and ensembles, each more sensational than the last. It's impossible not to tremble at the chorus of the bohemians' forge, or shudder at Azucena's famous "Stride la vampa", or jump to...