page one of the horn 3 part from Miserere from Giuseppe Verdi’s Trovatore

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Il trovatore (The Troubadour) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was first performed at the Teatro Apollo, Rome on 19 January 1853 and was immensely popular with some 229 productions wordwide in the following three years.[1] In fact, "in Naples, for example, where the opera in its first three years had eleven stagings in six theaters, the performances totaled 190".During the 1854/55 season while in Paris, Verdi agreed to a French translation of the opera for the Théatre des Italiens and he made several revisions to it (including adding ballet music for Act 3), but with most of these focusing on the music of Azucena and the finale of Act 4.As Le trouvère the opera received the first of many performances on 12 January 185. This arrangement is good for both Concert or Brass Band.

Giuseppe Verdi
3 minutes
Classical music
