Organization

Singer

Bass

Simone Alaimo

Mustafa

Soprano

Sonia Peruzzo

Elvira

Mezzo-soprano

Loredana Megna

Zulma

Salvo Todaro

Haly

Tenor

Daniele Zanfardino

Lindoro

Federico Lepre

Manuela Custer

Isabella

Antonella Colaianni

Baritone

Clemente Antonio Daliotti

Taddeo

Giuseppe Esposito

Conductor

Giuseppe La Malfa

Antonino Manuli

Stage director

Michele Mirabella

Set designer

Alida Cappellini

Giovanni Licheri

Costume designer

Chorus master

Tiziana Carlini

Teatro Massimo Bellini

Orchestra

Orchestra  del Teatro Massimo Bellini

L'italiana in Algeri -  (The Italian Girl in Algiers)

Catania

Italy

Composed by Rossini when he was just 21 years old and in just 18 days, “L'italiana in Algeri” was staged for the first time on May 22, 1813 in the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice. The plot is inspired by the story, which really happened, of a Milanese woman who was kidnapped by pirates at the beginning of the 19th century, then taken to a harem in Algiers and finally returned injured to Italy. Stendhal called this masterpiece "the perfection of the funny genre". How can we not agree with this judgment? And on the all-Italian primacy of the Rossinian genius, Michele Mirabella dwells in the director's notes, when he writes: "And it comes to mind that the most beautiful 'Italian' that the bey can deserve and obtain remains with him, and with and his people, be the Music ".

L'italiana in Algeri Rossini

Public

The Italian Girl in Algiers

Approved

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