Il trovatore Di quella pira ( Francesco Meli, Lianna Haroutounian, The Royal Opera)

Francesco Meli and Lianna Haroutounian sing the aria from act 3, scene 2 of Verdi s Il trovatore Find out more at Verdi wrote Il trovatore hot on the heels of Rigoletto, and its premiere came a scant two months before that of La traviata. But Il trovatore, while no less popular than its neighbours, is quite different. Verdi himself had suggested the source material, Antonio García Gutiérrezs play El trovador (1836), to his librettist Salvatore Cammarano. He encouraged Camma