Sandwiched between Rigoletto and La Traviata, Verdi’s Il Trovatore was equally as successful, perhaps due to the composers notoriety and recent successes, but almost certainly for the stunning music which he uses to tell this unusual story. Based on the play El Trovador by Spanish playwright Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, the plot of Cammarano’s libretto is considered by many to be implausible to the point of nonsense at times, but this does not detract from the opera’s popularity. Rather, there is great delight taken in the untameable spiritual world of the gypsies, with the famous ‘Anvil
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