A mother burns her baby and opera's most cursed love triangle ignites.
The first revival of David Bösch’s new production for The Royal Opera, with two casts including Maria Agresta, Lianna Haroutounian and Anita Rachvelishvili.
Production
Bösch's industrial-gothic sets with burning cars and nuns with guns.
Acting
Rachvelishvili's Azucena — unhinged, magnificent, career-defining.
Direction
Caldwell's camera finds intimacy in epic chaos.
Director
Bridget Caldwell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bösch's production replaced traditional gypsy camps with post-industrial wastelands and burning vehicles — the ROH's most divisive Trovatore staging in decades.
The 'Anvil Chorus' here is performed by women in habits smashing metal — Bösch reclaims Verdi's most famous tune as feminist uprising before revealing their complicity in Azucena's trauma.
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