Since its first performance at Rome\'s Teatro di Apollo on January 19, 1853, Il Trovatore has been one of Giuseppe Verdi\'s most successful operas. ". "When you go to India and the interior of Africa, you\'ll hear Trovatore, " Verdi wrote to a friend.
Within three years of its premiere, the opera was presented in over 150 opera houses in Italy alone, and performed as far away as London, Madrid, Odessa, Warsaw, Bucharest, Alexandria, Calcutta, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro.
Since its first performance at Rome\'s Teatro di Apollo on January 19, 1853, Il Trovatore has been one of Giuseppe Verdi\'s most successful operas