Il Trovatore - Roles

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast,
19 January 1853
(Conductor: – )
Revised version in French
(Le trouvère),
12 January 1857
(Conductor: – )
Count di Luna, a nobleman in the service of the Prince of Aragon baritone Giovanni Guicciardi Marc Bonnehée
Manrico, a troubadour and officer in the army of the Prince of Urgel tenor Carlo Baucardé Louis Guéymard
Azucena, a gypsy, supposedly Manrico's mother mezzo-soprano Emilia Goggi Adelaide Borghi-Mamo
Leonora, noble lady, in love with Manrico and courted by Di Luna soprano Rosina Penco Pauline Guéymard-Lauters
Ferrando, Luna's officer bass Arcangelo Balderi Prosper Dérivis
Ines, Leonora's confidante soprano Francesca Quadri Mme Dameron
Ruiz, Manrico's henchman tenor Giuseppe Bazzoli Sapin
An old gypsy bass Raffaele Marconi
A messenger tenor Luigi Fani
Leonora's friends, nuns, the Count's lackeys, warriors, Gypsies

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