Il Turco in Italia
Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)
Film screening from Festival d’Aix En Provence (2014)
Opera in two acts. Libretto by Felice Romani. It was first performed on 14 August 1814 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
Music Direction: Marc Minkowski
Director: Christopher Alden
Set designer: Andrew Lieberman
Costumes: Voyce Kaye
Light: Adam Silverman
Selim: Adrian Sampetrean
Fiorilla: Olga Peretyatko
Don Geronio: Alessandro Corbelli
Don Narciso: Lawrence Brownlee
Prosdocimo: Pietro Spagnoli
Zaida: Cecelia Hall
Albazar: Juan Sancho
Choir Vocal: Ensemble Aedes
Choir Leader: Mathieu Romano
Orchestra the musicians of the Louvre Grenoble
In co-production with the Teatr Wielki – National Opera of Poland, the Teatro Regina Torino, Turin and the opera of Dijon.
By a radiant sunshine of opera Chow, here is a well-made Turkish prince of his person and endowed with an agile bass voice arrives on the Neapolitan coast in search of women’s adventures. He soon met an Italian petulant, soprano as flirtatious as virtuoso, accustomed to flit with his admirers to the chagrin of his old husband. All this little world desires, gets jealous and fights under the eyes of the poet Prosdocimo and for his greatest happiness. Because this author in search of characters sought precisely the inspiration for a piece to be written. He will go so far as to influence the actions of these tragicomic-comic figures, giving an almost pirandellienne dimension to the craziest but also the most delicate opera of Gioacchino Rossini.
LE TURC EN ITALIE, IL TURCO IN ITALIA
(photo by Patrick Berger/ArtComArt)
