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

Directorial nods and winks undermine the impact of Verdi’s brutal, passionate opera This Verdi work smoulders with trauma.

An animated revival of Adele Thomas’s 2023 production, Il Trovatore strays from realism and instead focuses on a heavily symbolic reading of this dark and gritty opera. With macabre medieval ...

Stairs, in your multitudes. Adele Thomas’s Trovatore is a workout that stuns the stage in the first half and leaves much to be desired in the second. Verdi’s score grabs us from the start and Thomas ...

Il Trovatore performed at the Royal Opera House - Alastair Muir ...

Giacomo Sagripanti’s live wire dynamics and keenly judged tempo choices keep this revival of Verdi's Il trovatore buoyant at ...

Sung with a limpid radiance here by Rachel Willis-Sørensen, it is one of those passages that imbue the opera’s convoluted plot and impassioned, but one-dimensional characters with a depth that few ...