Name: L'italiana in Algeri
Start: 2006-07-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2006-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grand Saint-Jean

Organization

Cantante

Mezzosoprano

Christianne Stotijn

Isabella

Tenore

Maxim Mironov

Lindoro

Basso

Giorgio Surian

Mustafá

Ruben Drole

Haly

Baritono

Yuri Vorobiev

Taddeo

Soprano

Elisaveta Martirosyan

Elvira

Sabina Willeit

Zulma

Direzione d'orchestra

Riccardo Frizza

Regia

Toni Servillo

Costumi

Ortensia De Francesco

Luci

Pasquale Mari

Direzione del coro

Erwin Ortner

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Marco Vinco

Giorgio Caoduro

Scenografia

Daniela dal Cin

Orchestra

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

L'italiana in Algeri

Aix-en-Provence

Francia

Grand Saint-Jean

L'Italiana in Algeri by G. Rossini, from Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2006. Directed by Toni Servillo, conductor Riccardo Frizza, starring Maxim Mironov, Christianne Stotijn, Giorgio Caoduro, Marco Vinco, Ruben Drole, Sabina Willeit and Elisaveta Martirosyan. Performed in Italian.

"A complete and organized madness": it would be difficult to find a more apt description than that of the writer Stendhal to describe this surrealist face, composed by Rossini in a matter of weeks (he claimed 18 days) and premiered in May 1813. In the madcap comedy L'Italiani in Algeri, dadaist sensibilities meet onomatopoetic Italian opera buffa in two acts brimming with frenetic rhythms—seeming to anticipate the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton—and yet, also, with great tenderness in the arias of Isabella and her fiancé Lindoro, and with the patriotic fervor that animated Venice during the era.

The corsair Mustafà, bored with his wife Elvira, wishes to find a new companion. He intends to marry Elvira off to his Italian slave Lindoro (Maxim Mironov), himself preoccupied with his fiancée Isabella (Christianne Stotijn) in Italy. Unbeknownst to him, Isabella has already made plans to come find Lindoro in Algiers—and upon her arrival, she charms Mustafà and fools him into thinking he has won her affections. Can she keep up the ruse long enough to escape back to Italy with her beloved?

Grand Théâtre de Provence

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