Fantasy on Themes from Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Op. 8, No. 27 by J.K. Mertz - Исполняет Brandon Jack Acker

In the nineteenth century, instrumental arrangements, medleys, fantasies, or potpourris allowed people to enjoy selected music from current operas at home. This was done to compensate for the inability to record music and to meet the public’s demand for recreating well-known operatic arias. The performer would please the concert-goer with their favorite tunes and a display of their own virtuosity. The Opern-Revue consists of, a massive, 33 fantasies each based on a different opera. In these fantasies, M