Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich)
Zurich Opera House
2002 it 135 minutes
Rating: 7
Plot
When a wealthy Turkish aristocrat arrives in a humble Italian town, the married women roll their eyes in delight, their rival lovers lose out, and the husbands rage with jealousy. These may be silly clichés, but they are the subject of IL TURCO IN ITALIA and the composer plays with them – quite deliberately. He knows that he is putting archetypes of Italian comedy on stage with figures such as the exotic lady-killer Selim, the young woman Fiorilla, who is chained to the stove at home, but adventurous, and her husband Geronio, who is ridiculous because he is much too old – and relishes the ironic exaggeration. Franz Welser-Most conducts the Zurich Opera House Chorus and Orchestra in this performance of Rossini's opera buffa.
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Cast
Ruggero Raimondi
Selim
Cecilia Bartoli
Donna Fiorilla
Oliver Widmer
Poeta Prosdocimo
Paolo Rumetz
Don Geronio
Reinaldo Macias
Don Narciso
Judith Schmid
Zaida
Valery Tsarev
Albazar
