Salzburg Festival 2014: Il Trovatore
About this event
“Anna Netrebko – better than Maria Callas” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) – Since her sensational success in “La Traviata”, the soprano Anna Netrebko, now even more popular than ever before, returns regularly to the great festival hall at the Salzburg Festival. This time she shines as Leonora in Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic opera “Il Trovatore” at the side of Placido Domingo and the critics go wild: “A triumph” writes the New York Times, while the Neue Zürcher Zeitung speaks of “truly divine sounds”.
Francesco Meli as the troubadour Manrico whom Leonora loves is brilliant at her side: “He sings clearly and elegantly and has such vocal presence” (Der Standard). The Tagesspiegel is wowed by the enduring stage presence of Plácido Domingo as his rival, Count Luna: it “never fails to amaze people when they experience Plácido Domingo live, with his stage presence, the way he takes it all in his stride, how he now sings baritone parts without sounding different.” The strong cast is complemented by Marie-Nicole Lemieux, who as the gypsy Azucena provides spine-chilling and dramatic moments. The “most hotly anticipated spectacle of the Salzburg Festival” (Corriere della Sera) exceeds all expectations by a mile.
Alvis Hermanis staged the plot that revolves round two rival brothers who love the same woman and only learn they are related at the moment of her death, using sets that “in their opulent adherence to detail and fantastically illuminated atmosphere (…) offer much more than just a decorative sight for sore eyes“ (Salzburger Nachrichten).
On the rostrum of the Vienna Philharmonic is none other than Daniele Gatti, who elicits undreamt-of cascades of sound from the orchestra: “employing the most fabulous colours, which the Vienna Phil savour in virtually impressionist manner, diligently and tenderly heeding every characteristic and every chord with skill” (Salzburger Nachrichten).
Featuring
Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Daniele Gatti
Chorus: Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Chorus Master: Ernst Raffelsberger
Stage Director: Alvis Hermanis
Manrico: Francesco Meli
Leonora: Anna Netrebko
Il Conte di Luna: Plácido Domingo
Azucena: Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Ferrando: Riccardo Zanellato
Ines: Diana Haller
Ruiz / Un messo: Gérard Schneider
Un vecchio zingaro: Raimundas Juzuitis
Repertoire
Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore
Duration: approx. 150 minutes.
Subtitles available in English and German.
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