Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse from the past will rise up from the ashes with devastating implications for them all.

Starring Ludovic Tézier and Jamie Barton, Adele Thomas’s energetic staging sets Verdi’s tale in a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired universe of medieval superstition. Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s dramatic score, which features the famous ‘Anvil’ chorus.

Language: Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Running time: 3 hours and 25 minutes (including one interval)

Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano
Director: Adele Thomas
Designer: Annemarie Woods
Lighting designer: Franck Evin
Choreographer: Emma Woods

Conducted by: Antonio Pappano

Leonora: TBC
Manrico: Yusif Eyvazov
Count di Luna: Ludovic Tézier
Azucena: Jamie Barton
Ferrando: Roberto Tagliavini

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

A co-production with Opernhaus Zürich