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Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore One of the most enduringly popular operas in the repertoire, Il Trovatore was first seen at Rome's Teatro Apollo in 1853. Together with Rigoletto and La Traviata, it forms the "trilogy" of works that premiered in rapid succession over a period of just two years and firmly established Verdi as the leading opera composer of his time. The challenges of Il Trovatore's leading roles famously led Enrico Caruso to remark that all you needed to stage it were the "four best singers in the world."

World War II. German soldiers destroyed a Jewish village in Poland and slaughtered almost all of the residents. The few survivors gather in mourning and lament especially for Eli, a pious shepherd boy who, in the middle of the bloodbath, wanted to call God from heaven with the sound of his flute and was killed by a German soldier.

Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.

Impact lights from the backyard milieu of Kreuzberg near the wall, who is a part of Berlin.