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The Turk in Italy (Il Turco in Italia)
Archive :: production:T2038121548, opera or operetta:S144718233, venue:V798
Current :: venue:V798
Rossini's 1814 comic opera reversed the idea of The Italian in Algiers. Prosdocimo believes that adding a Turkish element into his new comedy would be advantageous and decides to engineer a complicated intrigue between Fiorilla, her worried husband Geroinio and the Turk Selim.
| Music | Rossini |
| Lyrics | Felice Romani (after Caterino Mazzola's Il Turco in Italia) |
