Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
0.00%
|
February 1, 2010
|
Music
Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini‘s wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini‘s first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini‘s librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perfectly Rossini‘s love of pastiche and parody. He provided a commedia dell‘ arte scenario that gave Rossini plenty of opportunity to mock traditions he had helped to cultivate in the first place. The plot is delightfully salcious and among the many jewels in the score, the duet for Geronio and Selim, in which the Turk tries to persuade the ageing husband to sell his wife to him, is widely considered one of the composer‘s masterpieces.
Featured Crew
Jonathan Webb
Conductor
Egisto Marcucci
Director
Gioacchino Rossini
Music
0
Cast
Simone Alaimo
Selim
Myrtò Papatanasiu
Donna Fiorilla
Bruno de Simone
Don Geronio
Antonino Siragusa
Don Narciso
Vincenzo Taormina
Prosdocimo