Il trovatore [videorecording] / [a BBC Television production in association with CBC Canada and Opus Arte ; music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto, Salvadore Cammarano ; television producer, Frances Whitaker] ; directed for television by Brian Large.
Opera. Verónica Villarroel (Leonora) ; Yvonne Naef (Azucena) ; José Cura (Manrico) ; Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il Conte di Luna) ; Tómas Tómasson (Ferrando) ; Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (Ines) ; Edgaras Montvidas (Ruiz) ; The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House ; Carlo Rizzi, conductor. Recorded May 3, 2002 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Based on El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. Booklet (21 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) with synopsis and biographical information in English, French and German laid in container. Extra features on disc: Synopsis -- the cast and their characters -- Designing Il trovatore -- All about schläger duelling.
Summary:
Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
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