The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma hosts Gioachino Rossini's masterpiece, returning on the stage of the Costanzi in the famous production of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo.
The dramma giocoso in two acts was quickly composed by the then very young composer from Pesaro in the spring of 1813, to a libretto by Angelo Anelli, previously set to music by Luigi Mosca, and was first staged at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on 22 May of the same year, achieving great success.
L'italiana in Algeri, one of Rossini's best-loved operas, is set in the palace of the bey Mustafà, married to Elvira, who he intends to repudiate by marrying her off to the Italian slave Lindoro, who is in love with the beautiful and proud Isabella, imprisoned after a shipwreck on the coast of the Algerian city. Thanks to a series of tricks and deceptions, the young Italian girl succeeds in avoiding the Sultan's unwanted attention and escaping, returning to her homeland with Lindoro.
On stage, directed by Maurizio Scaparro and with fable-like, colourful sets by Emanuele Luzzati, is an extraordinary cast - including Paolo Bordogna and Adolfo Corrado (Mustafà), Jessica Ricci (Elvira), Chiara Amarù and Laura Verrecchia (Isabella), Alejo Alvarez Castillo (Haly), Maria Elena Pepi (Zulma), Dave Monaco and Giorgio Misseri (Lindoro) - accompanied by the Teatro dell'Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Sesto Quatrini, at his debut at the Costanzi.
Photo: L'italiana in Algeri, Teatro Massimo di Palermo © rosellina garbo
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