From 13 March till 26 March 2021

From 13 to 26 March 2021

Gioachino Rossini /
IL TURCO IN ITALIA

Opera buffa in two acts

Libretto by Felice Romani

Conductor | Carlo Montanaro*

Master of the Chorus | Gea Garatti Ansini

Stage director| Antonio Calenda

Set designer | Nicola Rubertelli

Costume designer | Maurizio Millenotti

Cast

Selim | Marko Mimica*

Donna Fiorilla | Julie Fuchs*

Don Narciso | Ruzil Gatin*

Don Geronio | Paolo Bordogna

Prosdocimo | Davide Luciano (13, 16 and 18 March) / Alessandro Luongo (21, 23 and 26 March)

Zaida | Gaia Petrone

Albazar | Filippo Adami

*debut at Teatro di San Carlo

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo

Production of Teatro di San Carlo

March 2021

SERIE BLU

Saturday 13 March, h 19.00 - Series A - Fee V

Tuesday 16 March, h 20.00 - Series C/D - Fee VI

Thursday 18 March, h 18.00 - Series B - Fee VI

Sunday 21 March, h 17.00 - Series F - Fee V

Tuesday 23 March, h 20.00 - Out of subscription - Fee VI

Friday 26 March, h 20.00 - Out of subscription - Fee VI

Language: Sung in Italian with Italian and English surtitles
Running time: about 3 hours and 15 minutes, including one interval

Rossini presented Il Turco in Italia, his Oriental touch, in 1814 at La Scala in Milan, following the success of the Italian in Algiers, introduced the year before in Venice. It was a comic play by Felice Romani. In this precociously mature score, we can foresee the fruits of his creative itinerary going from farce to comic opera. It is a typical plot based on disguise and misunderstanding. The libretto tells the story of Selim, a Turkish man, contended by two women, Donna Fiorilla, the wife of Don Geronio, a very tolerant a fearful man, and Zaida, an ex-slave betrothed to Selim. Zaida will succeed with her cunning to re-establish the natural order of the couples. The relation between Naples and this work becomes apparent since the very beginning of the opera, when the Turks land on the city shores where the entire story takes place (later Neapolitan playwright, Mario Scarpetta will set his comedy Il Turco Napoletano in Sorrento, which will become a famous movie starring Totò in 1953). Moreover, in 1815, one year after his success in Milan, Barbaja, the impresario, invited Rossini to move to Naples as director of Teatro di San Carlo. He will fulfill the role for the next seven years and finally in 1820 the opera was performed on the Neapolitan stage. It returns now to Teatro di San Carlo after its revival in 2004, which was welcomed and cherished by our audience.