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ROSSINI, G.: Italiana in Algeri (L') (Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2006)


L'Italiana in Algeri
Composer: Rossini, Gioachino
Librettist/Text Author: Anelli, Angelo
Conductor: Frizza, Riccardo
Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Chorus: Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Chorus Master: Casals, Jordi

Elvira: Martirosyan, Elizaveta
Haly: Drole, Ruben
Isabella: Stotjin, Christianne
Lindoro: Mironov, Maxim
Mustafa: Vinco, Marco
Taddeo: Caoduro, Giorgio
Zulma: Willeit, Sabina

Set Designer: Dal Cin, Daniela
Costume Designer: Francesco, Ortensia De
Lighting Designer: Mari, Pasquale
Stage Director: Servillo, Toni
Television Director: Bataillon, Vincent


Date of Production: 07-2006
Festival: Aix-en-Provence Festival
Venue: Grand Saint-Jean Theater, Aix-en-Provence
Playing Time: 02:14:39
Catalogue Number: BAC025
UPC: 3760115300255

Synopsis
L'Italiana in Algeri

"A complete and organized madness": it would be difficult to find a more apt description than that of the writer Stendhal to describe this surrealist face, composed by Rossini in a matter of weeks (he claimed 18 days) and premiered in May 1813. In the madcap comedy L'Italiani in Algeri, dadaist sensibilities meet onomatopoetic Italian opera buffa in two acts brimming with frenetic rhythms-seeming to anticipate the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton-and yet, also, with great tenderness in the arias of Isabella and her fiance Lindoro, and with the patriotic fervor that animated Venice during the era.

The corsair Mustafa, bored with his wife Elvira, wishes to find a new companion. He intends to marry Elvira off to his Italian slave Lindoro (Maxim Mironov), himself preoccupied with his fiancee Isabella (Christianne Stotijn) in Italy. Unbeknownst to him, Isabella has already made plans to come find Lindoro in Algiers?EUR"and upon her arrival, she charms Mustafa and fools him into thinking he has won her affections. Can she keep up the ruse long enough to escape back to Italy with her beloved? medici.tv

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