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Which Spanish play inspired Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore?

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Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore was inspired by the 1836 play El trovador, written by the Spanish dramatist Antonio García Gutiérrez.12

Verdi was deeply impressed by the melodramatic nature of the play and worked with his librettist, Salvatore Cammarano, to adapt its complex narrative—which spans a broad time frame and features significant offstage action—into a powerful, fast-paced opera. The work premiered in Rome in 1853 and remains one of the most celebrated examples of Verdi's mastery of the Romantic and bel canto traditions.31