Editing Il trovatore (section)

==Cultural references==
[[Enrico Caruso]] once said that all it takes for a successful performance of ''Il trovatore'' is the four greatest singers in the world.{{sfn|Osborne|2007|p=502}} On many occasions, this opera and its music have been featured in various forms of popular culture and entertainment. Scenes of comic chaos play out over a performance of ''Il trovatore'' in the [[Marx Brothers]] film ''[[A Night at the Opera (film)|A Night at the Opera]]'' (including a quotation, in the middle of the act 1 overture, of ''[[Take Me Out to the Ball Game]]'').{{sfn|Grover-Friedlander|2005|p=33}} [[Luchino Visconti]] used a performance of ''Il trovatore'' at [[La Fenice]] opera house for the opening sequence of his 1954 film ''[[Senso (film)|Senso]]''. As Manrico sings his battle cry in "Di quella pira", the performance is interrupted by the answering cries of Italian nationalists on the upper balcony who shower the stalls area below with patriotic leaflets. In ''Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism'', Millicent Marcus proposes that Visconti used this operatic paradigm throughout ''Senso'', with parallels between the opera's protagonists, Manrico and Leonora, and the film's protagonists, Ussoni and Livia.{{sfn|Marcus|1986|p=182}} A staging of act 1, scene 2, of ''Il trovatore'' is featured in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1979 film ''[[La Luna (1979 film)|La Luna]]''. Music from the opera was featured on [[Kijiji]] in Canada for commercials.{{sfn|Tambling|1987|pp=62–63}}