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Il trovatore, an Uncommon card
Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the Spanish play El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Il trovatore quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Il trovatore card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It began with his ______ 1850 approach to Cammarano with the idea of Il trovatore.
Answer
January. It began with his January 1850 approach to Cammarano with the idea of Il trovatore. From the Il trovatore article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of 24 characters. List of 24 characters 83 · Tabletop role-playing game 78 · Il trovatore 75 · Empedocles 69 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was García Gutiérrez's most successful play, one which Verdi scholar Julian Budden describes as "a high flown, sprawling melodrama flamboyantly defiant of the Aristotelian unities, packed with all manner of fantastic and bizarre incident." The premiere took place at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 19 January 1853, where it "began a victorious march throughout the operatic world", a success due to…
- It began with his January 1850 approach to Cammarano with the idea of Il trovatore.
- There followed, slowly and with interruptions, the preparation of the libretto, first by Cammarano until his death in mid-1852 and then with the young librettist Leone Emanuele Bardare, which gave the composer the opportunity to propose significant revisions, which were accomplished under his direction.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Il trovatore article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Il trovatore
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Il trovatore (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Luigi Morgari / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
