Il Trovatore - Verdi Details

What a superb show

This is a most enjoyable performance. Domingo at his best with a truly excellent supporting cast. Music is great, singing really good,l staging very entertaining. Can really be recommended.

[Highly rated reviewer]

stupendous

It is said that all that is needed for a great performance of Il Trovatore is four great singers - it's as simple as that. Here we have four of the very greatest in a legendary performance. This sensational DVD is a historic record of great singing.

Il Trovatore may be considered a melodramatic and seemingly absurd farrago. Some of the essentials of the plot occur years before the action on stage. In spite of this Verdi's music compels the audience's belief and the emotional trajectory of the work is unrelenting. Nowhere more so than here where a young Placido Domingo clearly thrills the listeners in Vienna with a stupendous performance in the title role. The production has aged well.

If you are an opera lover, or if you think you may be, rent this... go for it and go with it

Highest possible recommendation