Rossini: Il Turco in Italia

Simone Alaimo (Selim), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Fiorilla), Bruno de Simone (Don Geronio), Antonino Siragusa (Don Narciso), Vincenzo Taormina (Prosdocimo), Antonella Nappa (Zaida), Federico Lepre (Albazar)

Teatro Carlo Felice, Jonathan Webb (conductor) & Egisto Marcucci (director)

pleasingly stylish and urbane...Jonathan Webb's conducting is as spruce and stylish as the production itself. There is even pleasure to be had from the Overture, with Erica Vitellozzi's brilliantly... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Feb 2010
Catalogue No: 101392
Label: Arthaus Musik

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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia

Live Recording from The Teatro Carlo Felice Di Genova, 2009
Simone Alaimo (Selim), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Fiorilla), Bruno de Simone (Don Geronio), Antonino Siragusa (Don Narciso), Vincenzo Taormina (Prosdocimo), Antonella Nappa (Zaida), Federico Lepre (Albazar)
Teatro Carlo Felice
Jonathan Webb (conductor) & Egisto Marcucci (director)

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Restaged by Elisabetta Courir & Set Design by Emanuele Luzzati

Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini‘s wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini‘s first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini‘s librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perfectly Rossini‘s love of pastiche and parody. He provided a commedia dell‘ arte scenario that gave Rossini plenty of opportunity to mock traditions he had helped to cultivate in the first place. The plot is delightfully salcious and among the many jewels in the score, the duet for Geronio and Selim, in which the Turk tries to persuade the ageing husband to sell his wife to him, is widely considered one of the composer‘s masterpieces.

Amongst the singers appearing on this DVD are the highly sought-after Sicilian bass Simone Alaimo, the Greek soprano Myrtò Papatanasiu, who became known to a wider public after her appearance as Violetta in Zeffirelli’s Traviata in Rome in 2007 and the legendary basso-buffo and pupil of Bruscantini, Bruno de Simone.

Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 7.1

Picture Format: 16:9

Resolution: 1080i FULL HD

Blu-ray Disc: 25 GB (Single Layer)

Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, JP

Running Time: 162 mins

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July 2010

pleasingly stylish and urbane...Jonathan Webb's conducting is as spruce and stylish as the production itself. There is even pleasure to be had from the Overture, with Erica Vitellozzi's brilliantly precise and insightful camerawork helping point up every last detail of Rossini's irrepressible wit.

Rossini: Il Turco in Italia

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