The Italian Girl in Algiers by Rossini, S 24 apr 2021, No (2020/2022), Režisēja Evgeny Pisarev, Diriģents Felix Korobov, Arif Dadashev, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater, Moscow, Russia

"Italian in Algiers", called by Stendhal "the highest achievement of the buffa genre", was written by Rossini in 1813. The premiere at the San Benedetto Theater in Venice took place on May 22, 1813. Having quickly conquered Europe, The Italian Girl ended up in Russia in 1822, where an Italian troupe staged it at the Znamenka Theater in Moscow. Then the stage history of this opera in Russia stopped for almost two hundred years, until the score of Gioacchino Rossini was mastered by the St. Petersburg theater "Through the Looking Glass". But the opera sounded on Russian concert stages. An artistic event was the performance of the part of Isabella by Zara Dolukhanova, who performed in a concert version of the opera in 1955 in the Hall of Columns. And in 2010, the famous Rossinian maestro Alberto Zedda conducted The Italian Woman in Algiers, performed on the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. And now the stage version of Rossini's opera has appeared in the Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko.