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Il trovatore, Royal Opera: an awkward fusion of passion and frivolity

This revival of Adele Thomas’s production of Verdi’s great warhorse opera is thought-provoking but eccentric

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Il Trovatore performed at the Royal Opera House Credit: Alastair Muir
Chief Opera Critic

When Adele Thomas’s new production of Verdi’s great warhorse opera Il Trovatore was first seen at Covent Garden in 2023, it had a decidedly mixed reception: my colleague John Allison dismissed it as “too silly...

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