Details

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. Prosdocimo, a toiling poet, finds his muse in the flirtatious Fiorilla and her husband, Geronio. When a dashing Turkish stranger arrives, a comedy of unrequted love and confused identity ensues. Rossini's deliciously layered plot sees games go wrong and lessons learned. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Cast/Performers

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Selim), Aleksandra Kurzak (Fiorilla), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Barry Banks (Don Narciso), Thomas Allen (Prosdocimo), Rachel Kelly (Zaida), Luis Gomes (Albazar)

Creatives/Company

Music: Rossini
Lyrics: Felice Romani (after Caterino Mazzola's Il Turco in Italia)
Producer: Royal Opera House
Conductor: Evelino Pido
Director(s): Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, Leah Hausman (movement), Richard Gerard Jones (associated director)
Design: Christian Fenouillat
Costume: Agostino Cavalca
Lighting: Christophe Forey
Company(s): Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House