Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore

It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman amphiteatre with its gigantic stage dimensions is one of the largest and best preserved Roman construction of its kind, and with over 22,000 seats it is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular open-air venues of the world! The revered master of opera Franco Zeffirelli, who died shortly before the premiere of Il Trovatore, created a legendary scenery with groups of giant sized armoured knights, a fortress turning into a luminous cathedral, an enormous choir, horses, breathtaking fights: “his perhaps best arena production” (Opernglas). It brings Anna Netrebko to the Arena of Verona where she is giving her much-anticipated debut in one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most popular operas.

Cast

Anna Netrebko

Leonora

Yusif Eyvazov

Manrico

Luca Salsi

Graf Luna

Dolora Zajick

Azucena

Riccardo Fassi

Ferrando

Elisabetta Zizzo

Ines

Carlo Bosi

Ruiz

Dario Giorgelè

An Old Gypsy

Antonello Ceron

A Messenger