The Opéra de Monte-Carlo presents Verdi’s Il Trovatore across four performances this month, in a co-production with the Teatro Real de Madrid and the Royal Danish Opera that brings together some of the most celebrated voices in opera today.

Conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti and directed by Francisco Negrin, the production explores the full dramatic weight of Verdi’s score — a work built on thwarted passion, clashes of power and family tragedy, in which some of the most beloved arias in the operatic repertoire unfold against an unrelenting dramatic arc.

The cast is exceptional. South African soprano Pretty Yende, one of the most sought-after lyric voices of her generation, shares the role of Leonora with Alexandra Marcellier. Polish baritone Artur Ruciński takes on the Count of Luna, while Piero Pretti sings Manrico and Armenian mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan brings her considerable dramatic presence to the role of Azucena. Evgeny Stavinsky and Annunziata Vestri complete the principal cast, supported by the Chorus and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.

Il Trovatore is, by any measure, one of Verdi’s most demanding and rewarding works — a opera of extremes, in which the emotional stakes rarely drop and the music rarely relents. In the hands of this cast and this production team, it promises to be one of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo’s most significant evenings of the season.

Performances take place on Sunday 22nd March at 3pm, Tuesday 24th March at 8pm (Gala), Thursday 26th March at 8pm and Saturday 28th March at 8.30pm, at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

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