SAN FRANCISCO -- He can bring you to tears with his Italian arias. But tenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz started his musical journey by singing popular Spanish mariachi songs. The Mexican singer starred in the ...

The Houston Grand Opera opened its 2024-25 season on Friday with a new production of Verdi’s "Il Trovatore" that showcased a singing cast of virtuosos, solid orchestral accompaniment, and a modern ...

The 2025-26 Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society season opens on September 21 with Dolce Armonia, featuring selections from Verdi’s Il Trovatore. The performance stars baritone David Hodgson as Conte di ...

GRAND RAPIDS – You say opera isn't your cup of tea any more than tea is your cup of tea? Fair enough. Opera is an 18th and 19th century art, in search of a 20th and 21st century audience, an ...

When Adele Thomas’s new production of Verdi’s great warhorse opera Il Trovatore was first seen at Covent Garden in 2023, it had a decidedly mixed reception: my colleague John Allison dismissed it as ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Had the chance to query Guanqun on her vocal regimen and the lightbulb ...

Il Trovatore is perhaps Verdi's most difficult opera to produce successfully. The music is glorious but the plot, even by the ...

Audience members at the Pittsburgh Opera production of “Il Trovatore” might be reminded of a popular medieval fantasy television series. “In many ways, the setting and staging of ‘Il Trovatore’ feels ...

No opera -- this side of Wagner's "Ring," anyhow -- brooks more deserved ridicule for its plot absurdity than "Il Trovatore." No opera surmounts these absurdities -- long-lost siblings, mistaken ...

Il Trovatore It may be among Verdi's most popular operas, but "Il Trovatore" has suffered one bad staging after another at the Met over the past 40 years. This latest version, a co-production with ...