The Italian Girl in Algiers

by Gioachino Rossini

Wandering the seas in search of her beloved Lindoro, the enterprising Isabella is captured by Mustafà who, bored by the acquiescence of his wife, want to woo one of the much celebrated Italian girls. It is the beginning of a hilarious comedy inspired by the real kidnapping by pirates of a clever Milanese lady, already set in music in 1808 by Luigi Mosca but turned five years later by Gioachino Rossini in the masterpiece that Stendhal called "perfection of the opera buffa". Marianna Pizzolato, one of the best interpreter of the role written for the legendary Marietta Marcolini, comes back to Florence to show the "lunacy" of the Italian Girl in Algiers in the exuberant exhibition of Joan Font.

L'Italiana in Algeri
Lyric opera in two acts
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Angelo Anelli
Staging of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Program

Conductor
Bruno Campanella

Director
Joan Font

Scenes and costumes
Joan Guillén

Light design
Albert Faura

Choreography
Xevi Dorca

Choir director
Lorenzo Fratini

Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Artists

Isabella
Marianna Pizzolato / Victoria Yarovaya (16, 22)

Mustafà
Pietro Spagnoli / Marko Mimica (16, 20, 22)

Lindoro
Boyd Owen / Patrick Kabongo Mubenga (16, 22)

Taddeo
Omar Montanari / Biagio Pizzuti (16, 22)

Elvira
Damiana Mizzi

Zulma
Lamia Beuque

Haly
Sergio Vitale

Tiger
Alfonso Cayetano

Stalls 1	€ 80
Stalls 2	€ 60
Stalls 3	€ 45
Boxes	€ 20
Gallery	€ 15
Limited visibility	€ 10

Season 2015/16

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Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino