Apr. 23 – Manrico is one of the heroes in Verdi’s opera and from Friday, April 26 at the Houston Grand Opera (Houston – Texas), the Italian tenor Marco Berti will play his part. “Il Trovatore” will be conducted by Patrick Summers and directed by Stephen Lawless. Replicas are scheduled for April 28, May 1, 4, 8 and 11. Marco Berti, in his 25-year career, has trodden the biggest world stages: the Teatro Alla Scala, the Arena di Verona, the Chicago Lyric Opera House, the Metropolitan in New York, Covent Garden in London, the Opera in Paris, the Grand Theater in Shanghai, Tokyo, Berlin, Madrid, Tel Aviv… He also attended the special commemoration for 9/11 – on the occasion of the 10th anniversary – at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco with “Nessun dorma”. Berti is a professional admired and sought after all over the world, as evidenced by the reviews of international newspapers: a tenor with “a heroic quality in his brilliant voice” wrote the Chicago Tribune; Gonzalo Alonso for La Razon claims that Berti is “the Othello the years to come, that of the future;” and according to the Corriere della Sera’s monthly review, Style, Berti is “one of Italy’s top tenors” with a “powerful stage presence and requested all over the world.”
