23 Jan 2018. Il Trovatore: NYT Critic's Pick. By Zachary Woolfe. Jan. 23, 2018. away with the show in “Il Trovatore,” which opened at the Metropolitan Opera. 29 Jan 2018. Jan 29, 2018. Guiseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore, a tale of mistaken identities, revenge and jealousy, airs this weekend on the Metropolitan Opera's.
Verdi’s score for Il Trovatore perfectly expresses the extreme nature of the drama at hand. Throughout the opera, the use of melody is as uninhibited as.