Il Trovatore
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Il Trovatore ("The Troubadour") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)[1].
The Italian libretto was largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, a flamboyant and incident filled melodrama.
A burlesque version of the opera was apparently done by the Christy Minstrels in the 1860s, also performed during their South African visit in 1862.
Another burlesque version called Il Trovatore Up To Date ("a burlesque in one scene") was written and published by Alexander H. Laidlaw, Jr. in 1897.
