Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 19 January 1853 (Conductor: – ) |
Revised version in French (Le trouvère), 12 January 1857 (Conductor: – ) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Count di Luna, a nobleman in the service of the Prince of Aragon | baritone | Giovanni Guicciardi | Marc Bonnehée |
| Manrico, a troubadour and officer in the army of the Prince of Urgel | tenor | Carlo Baucardé | Louis Guéymard |
| Azucena, a gypsy, supposedly Manrico's mother | mezzo-soprano | Emilia Goggi | Adelaide Borghi-Mamo |
| Leonora, noble lady, in love with Manrico and courted by Di Luna | soprano | Rosina Penco | Pauline Guéymard-Lauters |
| Ferrando, Luna's officer | bass | Arcangelo Balderi | Prosper Dérivis |
| Ines, Leonora's confidante | soprano | Francesca Quadri | Mme Dameron |
| Ruiz, Manrico's henchman | tenor | Giuseppe Bazzoli | Sapin |
| An old gypsy | bass | Raffaele Marconi | |
| A messenger | tenor | Luigi Fani | |
| Leonora's friends, nuns, the Count's lackeys, warriors, Gypsies | |||
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