Il Trovatore

By Giuseppe Verdi

Premiere
Opera North, Leeds, 1.10.1994

Conductor :: Paul Daniel
Director :: Inga Levant
Set & lighting :: Charles Edwards
Costumes :: Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Cast
Manrico :: Edmund Barham
Leonora :: Katerina Kudriavchenko
Azucena :: Sally Burgess
Di Luna :: Ettore Kim
Ferrando :: Clive Bayley

"... new staging of Verdi’s gloomy masterpiece as near to perfection as you could hope."
The Times, 3/10/1994

"... a seriously brilliant new production... an international hit."
The Guardian, 3/10/1994

"... 'Triumph over the absurd'... Inga Levant cleans the story up, smoothing out the messy details of unseen events and binding the whole thing together with recurring motifs of fire... much as Verdi’s score does."
The Independent on Sunday, 9/10/1994