Delirium, revenge, civil war, family. Verdi’s genius uses these and other ingredients to give the history of music one of the three cornerstones of opera of all time, a component of the so-called “popular trilogy” together with Rigoletto and Traviata which premiered on January 19, 1853 at Apollo Theater in Rome. Unlike other works, stained by an unfortunate debut and then become great classics, with Il trovatore Giuseppe Verdi he managed better than with any other work to touch the heart of his audience, as the chronicles of the time tell well: a plot from articulated plot that the public follows all in one breath, amidst shocking revelations and stylistic means that exceed the expressive boundaries known at the time.
