Great music, infernal costumes, attention-grabbing design, this opera has everything except an intelligible plot.

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 ...

Guide dog puppies-in-training have been visiting the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden to see Il Trovatore and learn more ...

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 ...