Organization

Singer

Bass

Nahuel Di Pierro

Selim

Soprano

Olga Peretyatko

Donna Fiorilla

Renato Girolami

Don Geronio

Tenor

Mingjie Lei

Don Narciso

Baritone

Pietro Spagnoli

Prosdocimo

Mezzo-soprano

Chelsea Zurflüh

Zaida

Luis Magallanes

Albazar

Stage director

Jan Philipp Gloger

Conductor

Riccardo Minasi

Lighting designer

Martin Gebhardt

Costume designer

Karin Jud

Set designer

Ben Baur

Video designer

Sami Bill

Dramaturge

Claus Spahn

Chorus master

Ernst Raffelsberger

Libretto

Felice Romani

Opernhaus Zürich

Orchestra

Philharmonia Zürich

Others

Zusatzchor der Oper Zürich

Italian

Il turco in Italia -  (The Turk in Italy)

Zurich

Switzerland

Opernhaus

Studiobühne

Il turco in Italia Rossini

Public

The Turk in Italy

German

English

Approved

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Il turco in Italia
So-called Turkish operas were a popular genre on the theater and opera stages in the 18th and 19th centuries. One was fascinated by the exotic magic of the Orient and with a shudder heard the stories of the allegedly submissive women who were available to the men in harems, and delighted in the fantasy of the virile-seductive oriental man. From today's perspective, these are bad clichés and cultural misunderstandings. So today you can still do a Turkish opera like Rossini's Il turco in Italiabring it to the stage without perpetuating the prejudices? The German opera and drama director tried it: He moved the Rossini opera into the apartments, corridors and entrances of a petty-bourgeois apartment building of our day and ignited a pleasurable, cryptic game about all the misunderstandings that arise in the clash of oriental and western- modern culture. He knows Rossini by his side, because the composer himself had a lot of fun with the parodistic exaggeration by talking to the seducer Selim, the ridiculous, because much too old, husband Geronio and his enterprising young wife Fiorilla, who is chained to the domestic stove Put archetypes of the Commedia dell'arte on the stage and introduced the poet Prosdocimo into the plot,

Musically, our Il turco in Italia production, which became a real hit with the public at the premiere two years ago, promises rapid tempos, breakneck arias and lots of buffa fun. The highly virtuoso role of Fiorilla is ideally cast with the spirited Olga Peretyatko, with Rossini-proven character actors such as Renato Girolami, Nahuel Di Pierro and Pietro Spagnoli at her side.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble