That most operatic of all operas, Il trovatore, has been done many ways, but here’s a first: the warhorse as bottle episode. The production is by Dmitri Tcherniakov for Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. There’s video after the jump.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ijENSFNgpE
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3otSS51xA
Photo © Bernd Uhlig.
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