(photo credit: Christian Dresse, from the Opéra de Marseille production)
If you pushed a hard-core, dyed-in-the-wool Wagnerian into the corner, they would scream and weep before they admitted to loving any opera by Giuseppe Verdi. But keep slapping them about because eventually they will admit that there is one - a dark, haunting piece with a story as convoluted as all of the Ring Cycle and thematics as complex and wondrous as any by the crazy German. It is Il Trovatore, a tale of brothers separated at birth, Tsigani, infanticide and feudal-age (and hopeless) love. It is an opera that is insanely difficult to mount because it requires four (count 'em) great voices. This is, of course, something the COC can pull off quite, quite well. (Ramón Vargas, anyone?)
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