Il trovatore
2014 Sarasota Opera Production
February 8, 12, 16m, 22, 25, 27, March 2m, 7, 14, 22
Conductor
Victor DeRenzi
Stage Director
Stephanie Sundine
Scenic Designer
Michael Schweikardt
Costume Designer
Howard Tsvi Kaplan
Lighting Designer
Ken Yunker
Make-Up & Hair Designer
Sue Sittko Schaefer
Chorus Master
Roger L. Bingaman
Assistant Conductors
John F. Spencer IV, Tessa Hartle
Surtitle Supplier
Words For Music
Surtitle Translator
Victor DeRenzi
New Production Created By Sarasota Opera
Cast
The Count de Luna
David Pershall
Leonora
Reyna Carguill
Azucena
Margaret Mezzacappa
Manrico
Kirk Dougherty
Ferrando
Jeffrey Beruan
Ines
Tania Maria Rodriguez*
Ruiz
Thorsteinn Árbjörnsson*
An old gypsy
Blake Hudson**
A messenger
Jared Esguerra**
* Studio Artist
** Apprentice Artist
Sarasota Opera Orchestra
Chorus: Sarasota Opera Apprentice And Studio Artists
Reviews
"This tale is unfolded through some of the most glorious, tune-filled music Verdi gave us, so, for three or so hours, we are able to suspend our sense of reality and allow ourselves to be enveloped in sheer sound.
Sarasota Opera is one of the few important companies in the country that delivers opera the way the composer envisioned it when it was first written. How do we know what Verdi wanted? Victor DeRenzi, the company’s artistic director and conductor, is a Verdi scholar and he’s gone back in time, figuratively speaking, to unearth original concepts, stagings, costumes, scenery and style. If you want to see and hear an opera as the composer intended it at the time he wrote it, Sarasota Opera is the place to be."
- June LeBell, Your Observer
"As is his wont, DeRenzi led an assured performance that stressed the beauty and expressivity of Verdi’s music and let its fervor take care of itself."
- George Loomis, Classical Voice America
(Photos: Rod Millington / Sarasota Opera)
Dramma In Four Parts, Sung In Italian
Poetry By Salvadore Cammarano
With Additions By Leone Emmanuele Bardare
Based On The Play El Trovador By Antonio García Gutiérrez