From the Met: Il Trovatore

From the Met: Verdi's Il Trovatore
Il Trovatore was one of the great trio of operas Verdi wrote within a couple of years in the 1850s, along with Rigoletto and La Traviata. The melodramatic plot involves a love triangle between Leonora, who loves Manrico, and the Count di Luna, Manrico's sworn enemy and, unbeknown to him, his long-lost brother who also loves Leonora. The story is complicated further by Manrico's mother, Azucena, whose desire for revenge costs the lives of the the lovers Leonora and Manrico. Soprano Maria Agresta stars as the heroine Leonora, Yonghoon Lee as the troubadour Manrico who loves her, Quinn Kelsey as his rival the Count di Luna, and mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as the Gypsy Azucena. Marco Armiliato conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Presented by Mary Jo Heath and commentator Ira Siff.

Leonora ..... Maria Agresta (soprano)
Azucena ..... Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo-soprano)
Manrico ..... Yonghoon Lee (tenor)
Di Luna ..... Quinn Kelsey (baritone)
Ferrando ..... Štefan Kocán (bass)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Marco Armiliato (Conductor).