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Marc Minkowski

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Dmitri Tcherniakov, that inimitable maverick, has done it againIl trovatore as a chamber drama for just five charactersAnd with Marc Minkowski in the pitThis Trovatore from La Monnaie in Brussels, staged by the great provocateur Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by one of the outstanding conductors of our time, Marc Minkowski, is a piece of theatre nobody else would have dreamed up. The premise is this: one year after a certain incident, Azucena summons Manrico, the Count di Luna and Leonora in order to get at the truth. Locked in a single room and prompted by Ferrando, the four reluctantly begin to re-enact what happened, and as they do so one hidden fact after another comes to light until their emotions finally collide head-on. If you sit down expecting a conventional Trovatore you may well be baffled at first, but once the device takes hold the claustrophobic tension of a closed-room drama