Le Trouvere

Le Trouvere is an opera in four acts that E. Milien Pacini translated into French from the libretto by Salvatore Cammarano for Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore. The subject was taken from a Spanish play by Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez , and the orginial Italian composition had its world premiere at the Apollo Theatre in Rome on 17 January 1853. It was heard first in Italian in Paris at the Théâtre Italien on 23 December 1854, and Pacini’s French version was produced initially in Brussels at the…