Of the impenetrable – and often delirious – plot of Il trovatore, the aspect that most appealed to Giuseppe Verdi was the profound vital contradiction in which Azucena finds herself, as full of love for her son as she is of hate for her mother. 
 With an almost unbridled temperament and irresistible momentum, Il trovatore is brimming with dramatic tension and musical genius, giving rise to a story of love and revenge that grows in intensity, irrepressible, and culminates in the final catastrophe.