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Verdi: Il trovatore
 
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475 8281 6

CD 1, Track 5
CD 1, Track 10
   

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Manrico Luciano Pavarotti
Il Conte di Luna Ingvar Wixell
Leonora Joan Sutherland
Ferrando Nicolai Ghiaurov
Azucena Marilyn Horne
Ruiz Graham Clarke
Ines Norma Burrowes
Un vecchio zingaro Peter Knapp
Un messo Wynford Evans

London Opera Chorus
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Bonynge


RECORDING INFORMATION
Starring Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne, conducted by Richard Bonynge with the National Philharmonic Orchestra

Verdi's Il Trovatore is based on the play El Trobador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, on 19 January 1853. Il trovatore is a staple in the standard operatic repertoire and according to Opera America is the seventeenth most performed opera in North America. In 1857 Verdi revised the opera for Paris as Il trouvère and added a ballet. (the Ballet Music is included in this recording, as a bonus CD and appears on CD for the first time.
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