Friday, October 12, 2012

IL TROVATORE – CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY’S MOSTLY WELL-SUNG PRODUCTION ON SPARTAN SETS


Reviewed by James Karas

*** (out of five)      

What do you get when you have a woman being burnt on the stake and her daughter tosses a baby – the wrong baby – on the pyre? The correct answer is Giuseppe Verdi’s incredible melodrama, Il Trovatore. 

The Canadian Opera Company’s production (borrowed from Opéra de Marseille) eschews melodramatic displays but does provide some thrills. There are also a few gaffes but overall the production does credit to Verdi.


My full review of this production may be read here:


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