Film
Royal Opera House Encore: Il Trovatore
- Director
- David Bosch
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 180 mins
Opera doesn’t get any bigger, grander or – frankly – dafter than Verdi’s Il Trovatore. The plot makes no sense whatsoever, even by operatic standards: woman seeking revenge for the burning to death of her mother for witchcraft snatches the baby son of the man she holds responsible, but accidentally throws her own nipper onto the pyre by mistake. Easily done. So naturally, she raises the surviving child as her own. As you do.
Still, never mind the implausibility, this is fabulously overblown stuff, best known for its Anvil Chorus. David Bosch‘s production sets the four-act opera against the backdrop of war.
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