Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

Conductor: Lu Jia

Orchestra: China NCPA Orchestra

Chorus: NCPA Chorus

From May 21-25, the NCPA's production of Verdi's opera Il Trovatore will be staged at the Opera House of the NCPA.

Il Trovatore is a classical tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was Gutiérrez's most successful play, one which Verdi scholar Julian Budden describes as "a high flown, sprawling melodrama flamboyantly defiant of the Aristotilian unities, packed with all manner of fantastic and bizarre incident."

Director/Set Design/Costume Design: Hugo De Ana

Acclaimed for his spectacular scenery sets as well as for his special way to use the lights Hugo de Ana is a regular guest at World's most prestigious opera houses. His career started as Technical Director and Executive Producer at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, staging operas such as Turandot, Werther, Don Carlo, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Medea and The Rake's Progress. Then he moved to Santiago de Chile where he staged Roméo et Juliette, Lucrezia Borgia, Don Carlo e Les contes d'Hoffmann receiving for three consecutive years the critics' price as the best director.

Date: May 21-25, 2014

Venue: Opera House of the NCPA

Admission: RMB 100, 280, 450, 550, 600, 680, 880