Watch Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (2010) Online!

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.

Directing:
  • Egisto Marcucci
  • Andrea Durigo

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Release Date: 2010-02-01
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  • Language: en
  • Runtime: 162
Simone Alaimo
Simone Alaimo
Selim
Myrtò Papatanasiu
Myrtò Papatan...
Donna Fiorilla
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