Giuseppe Verdi - Il Trovatore DVD / Arena di Verona / Giorgio Zancanaro, Rosalind Plowright, Fiorenza Cossotto, Franco Bonisolli / Orchestra & Chorus Arena di Verona / Conducted by Reynald Giovaninetti / NVC Arts

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REGION 2, 3, 4, 5 NTSC  DVD

AUDIO: Dolby Digital 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, Spanish, French, German, Italiano, Portuguese, Japanese

TOTAL RUNTIME: 144 MINUTES

Il trovatore (pronounced [il trovaˈtoːre]; Italian for "The Troubadour") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was Gutiérrez's most successful play, one which Verdi scholar Julian Budden describes as "a high flown, sprawling melodrama flamboyantly defiant of the Aristotelian unities, packed with all manner of fantastic and bizarre incident."

English Summary:

Reynald Giovaninetti conducts the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona in a performance of Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'. The international cast includes Giorgio Zancanaro and Rosalind Plowright. The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy, but still hopes that he may be alive. When he attempts to court the beautiful Leonora, he is enraged to discover that she has a lover - the troubadour, Manrico. Manrico and the Count duel, and afterwards Manrico reveals to Azucena, the woman he believes to be his mother, that when he had the opportunity to kill the Count he felt something holding him back. 

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