- Become a Member
- Join Now
- Sustaining Members
- Member Benefits
- Match Your Contribution
- FAQ
- Existing Members
- Member Discounts
- Member Benefits
- Change of Address
- Tax Information
- Newsletters
- /
- Podcasts
- /
- RSS Feeds
- /
- Mobile
Sponsor
Blog Archive
| September 2008 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | ||||
Master Archive
Recent Entries
- A Trailblazing Music Scholar
- Start Your Thanksgiving with Rachmaninoff
- Don't Just Sit There, Do Something!
- The Myth of High-Priced Tickets
- Hear the music of the future!
- Melbourne Symphony Wonders: Is Music Director Necessary?
- Time to Weigh in....
- Can orchestras survive with "business as usual?"
- Tonight's Euro Classic: A Mozart Divertimento
- Oldest Orchestra West of the Rockies Files for Bankruptcy
Categories
Contact Us
- Questions about the playlist?
Contact MPR's Member Benefits Team.
Purchase the Music
- Buy the music you've heard on-air! Your purchase helps support our classical service.
ArkivMusic
Services
I'll Tell You the Story of Il Trovatore
Posted at 4:51 PM on September 17, 2008
by Rex Levang
The Minnesota Opera launches its season this weekend with Verdi's Il Trovatore. Its plot is famously hard to make sense of--or is it?
If you Google "trovatore synopsis," the number one result is this piece by Richard Bogart, who says that the problem is that the plot actually consists of three subplots that constantly intertwine. Here's how he disentangles it all.
- Become a Member
- Leadership Circle
- Sustaining Members
- Member Discounts
- Become a Sponsor
- Tax Information
- Planned Giving
- Fundraising Credentials
- Vehicle Donation
- Donate Stock
Minnesota Public Radio ©2009 All rights reserved