presents
Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez
CAST
Leonora Guanqun Yu
Azucena Raehann Bryce-Davis
Manrico (Sep 18-Oct 3) Limmie Pulliam*
Manrico (Oct 6-10) Gregory Kunde*
Count di Luna Vladimir Stoyanov*
Ferrando Morris Robinson
Ines Tiffany Townsend†
Ruiz Anthony Ciaramitaro†
Messenger Orson Van Gay II
Ghost of Azucena's MotheR Christian Scott*
Ghost of Azucena's Son Jimmy Harris*
CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor James Conlon
DIRECTOR Francisco Negrín
Scenery & Costumes Louis Désiré*
LIGHTING Bruno Poet*
CHORUS DIRECTOR GRANT GERSHON
Fight Director Andrew Kenneth Moss*
Associate Director Angela Kleopatra Saroglou*
Assistant Conductor Louis LohraseB‡
Assistant Director Erik Friedman
Stage Manager Whitney McAnally
PrompteR Nino Sanikidze
Musical Preparation
Jeremy Frank
Nicholas Roehler
Peter Walsh‡
Production made possible with generous support from the
Tarasenka Pankiv Fun (Tara Colburn)
Alfred and Claude Mann Fund
Jane and Peter Hemmings Production Fund, a gift from the Flora L. Thornton Trust
and
The Blue Ribbon.
Special additional support from The Orden Family in memory of their beloved patriarch and matriarch, Ted and Hedy; and from Raffaella and John Belanic for James Conlon's conducting.
LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl.
PRODUCTION NOTES
The running time is approximately two hours and 45 minutes, including one intermission.
This production uses flames.
Supertitles written by Chris Bergen.
A co-production of Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Teatro Real (Madrid) and Royal Danish Opera (Copenhagen).
Original set construction by Opéra de Monte-Carlo. LA Opera production constructed by LA Opera stage crew and scenic artists.
Additional costumes produced by the LA Opera Costume Shop. Wigs constructed by the LA Opera Wig & Make-Up Department.
LA Opera partnered with G8 Check to develop and implement COVID protocols in full compliance with LA County and other local guidelines.
* LA Opera debut
† Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist
‡ DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG ARTIST Alumnus
Artists subject to change
Please wear your mask at all times inside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Please refrain from talking during the performance, and turn off all cell phones, electronic devices and watch alarms. If you are using an assistive hearing device, or are attending with someone who is, please make sure that it is set to an appropriate level to avoid distracting audio feedback. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house management. The use of cameras and recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Your use of a ticket acknowledges your willingness to appear in photographs taken in public areas of the Music Center and releases the Center and its lessees and others from liability resulting from use of such photographs. Any microphones onstage are used for recording or broadcast purposes only; onstage voices are not amplified.
