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The 2018 season of the Grand Teatro Giacomo Puccini is enriched by two popular opera titles CARMEN by Georges Bizet (August 23rd) and Giuseppe Verdi’s IL TROVATORE (August 24th) presented as part of the “TeatrOspite” project, which provides for cultural exchanges with other European Opera institutions.

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opéra-comique in four acts by Georges Bizet

The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.

In the artistic proposal of the State Opera of Plovdiv for the Gran Teatro di Torre del Lago, on August 23rd the performance of Georges Bizet masterpiece Carmen, the last work of Bizet, who for all his short life fought to establish himself as a composer, consequence of his choices not suited to the traditional repertoire of the time that obscured his talent.

Carmen went on stage for the first time on March 3, 1875 and was coldly received, judged by the public to be a dissolute and immoral opera.

Bizet, who was convinced of the value of his work, retired to his home in Bougival, where, after three months died of a heart attack at only 36 years of age. Bizet, therefore, had no way of seeing his most famous work adapted to become a Grand Opera in Vienna and, from that moment on, one of the most represented works in theatres around the world.
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Music by Giuseppe Verdi

Opera in four acts

Libretto written by Salvatore Cammarano

taken from the Spanish drama of the same name by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

The year 1851 was a year of great commitment for Giuseppe Verdi who from Paris, after the success of Rigoletto, worked at distance with the librettist Salvatore Cammarano from Naples on the libretto  “Il Trovatore”, but at the same time, signed a contract with the Opera Paris for a new opera “Les Vêpres siciliennes”.

Verdi himself had advised librettist Salvatore Cammarano to take inspiration from “El Trovador” created by the Spanish writer Antonio Garcìa-Gutiérrez, a drama of romantic inspiration, which was performed in Madrid in 1836 and which had struck the Maestro for the power and originality of the plot and characters.

In March 1852, the Maestro returned to Busseto, together with Giuseppina, and continued to work on Il Trovatore, despite being continuously hindered by the poor health of his librettist and those of his father (the mother had died the year before).

On 19 January 1853, Il Trovatore was represented at the Apollo Theatre in Rome and for Verdi it was an unprecedented success: the public was ecstatic, La Gazzetta Musicale defined it as a deserved triumph and Il Trovatore was defined as a masterpiece, as it is still considered today.

Il Trovatore is the second opera of the “popular trilogy” by Giuseppe Verdi. A drama in four acts set in Spain at the beginning of the fifteenth century, which recounts flaming passions such as love, jealousy, revenge, hatred and lust. Manrico and the Count of the Moon, who fall in love with the same woman, face each other as enemies in a drama that ends in death, without knowing that they are brothers. Belonging to two different social classes, they share only Leonora’s love which doubles the existing ruthlessness of social conflict. The drama in some parts could fall into fantasy, but Verdi’s music and the poetry of the libretto redeem the opera, transforming it into the musician’s best opera

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