IL TROVATORE
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Opera in four acts in Italian
Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano from Spanish drama of the same tittle by Atonio Garcia Gutiérrez
Premièr at Teatro Apollo, Rome – 19 January 1853
Premièr at Teatro Apollo, Rome – 19 January 1853
June 1958 (2 Performances)
Opernhause, Zurich
Conductor: Eduard Hartogs
Chorus master: n/a
Stage director: n/a
Scene and costumes: n/a
Count di Luna ETTORE BASTIANINI baritone
Ferrando di Luna’s captain of the guard n/a bass
Manrico a chieftain under the Prince of Biscay and reputed son of Azucena PIERO MIRANDA FERRARO tenor
Duchess Leonora lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Aragon LEYLA GENCER soprano
Ruiz a soldier in Manrico’s service n/a tenor
An Old Gypsy n/a baritone
Inez confident of Leonora n/a soprano
Azucena a Biscayan gypsy woman LUCIA DANIELI mezzo-soprano
Time: Fifteenth Century
Place: Biscay and Aragon
Stage director: n/a
Scene and costumes: n/a
Ferrando di Luna’s captain of the guard n/a bass
Manrico a chieftain under the Prince of Biscay and reputed son of Azucena PIERO MIRANDA FERRARO tenor
Duchess Leonora lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Aragon LEYLA GENCER soprano
Ruiz a soldier in Manrico’s service n/a tenor
An Old Gypsy n/a baritone
Inez confident of Leonora n/a soprano
Azucena a Biscayan gypsy woman LUCIA DANIELI mezzo-soprano
Place: Biscay and Aragon
OPERA MAGAZINE
1958 September
Zurich. The operatic programme of the Festival has included no new works this year, though there were two new productions' Oedipus Rex (Maria Davenport, Helmut Melchert) and Figaro (Hilde Koch, Vera Schlosser, Edith Mathis, Hilde Biichel, Heinz Rehfuss, Heinz Borst, Rold Bottcher, Charles Gillig). There were also seven gala performances: Fidelio (Heinz Imdahl, Symonette, Sebastian Feiersinger, Helga Pilarczyk and Birgit Nilsson; Hans Knappertsbusch); Magic Flute (Josef Greindl, Ernst Hafliger; Reinshagen); Il Trovatore (Leyla Gencer, Lucia Danieli, Piero Miranda Ferraro, Ettore Bastianini; Hartogs); Entführung (Hafliger, Eva Maria Rogner, Ingeborg Friedrich; Erismann); Traviata (Virginia Zeani, Ferrando Ferrari, Bastianini; Kampel); Tosca (Nilsson, Eugenio Fernandi, Imdahl; Hartogs).
