Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres, in…
January 1853 CE
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres, in performance at Teatro Apollo in Rome, on January 19, 1853.
Italian for "The Troubadour", this opera in four acts by Verdi, to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, is based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
It was Gutiérrez's most successful play.