ABOUT THE EVENT

The Opéra de Paris presents "L’Italiana in Algeri", one of Rossini's most exquisite scores, penned when the composer was only 21 years old.

This is a comic opera of pristine charm and humour, full of twinkling, sparkling music and characters who seem freshly minted. The lovely Isabella embarks for Algiers to seek her beloved Lindoro, taken prisoner by the tyrant Mustafà. But the boat founders and the adventure begins... There are pirates, a harem, eunuchs, a palace by the sea, the whole wonderful panoply of oriental exotica still fashionable in the early 19th century. There is also the brilliant and virtuoso bel canto of which Rossini had the secret. And above all there is that zaniness he so cleverly injects into his theatre, as the machine he himself has made suddenly goes haywire, like the extravagant first act finale where the ensemble degenerates into a hubbub of onomatopoeia.

Vivica Genaux leads the dance in Andrei Serban's joyous production.

Performed in Italian

Maurizio Benini, Conductor
Andrei Serban, Stage director
Marina Draghici, Sets and costumes
Guido Levi, Lighting
Niky Wolcz, Choreography
Alessandro Di Stefano, Chorus master

Marco Vinco, Mustafà

Jaël Azzaretti, Elvira

Cornelia Oncioiu, Zulma

Riccardo Novaro, Haly

Lawrence Brownlee, Lindoro

Vivica Genaux, Isabella

Alessandro Corbelli, Taddeo

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com

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