Opera IL TURCO IN ITALIA
Gioachino Rossini

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IL TURCO IN ITALIA • Mar-13 2021 | Teatro San Carlo, Napoli
A music trip to Naples can be a wonderful combination. The city offers excellent culinary attractions and a cityscape that is best explored on foot with a private guide. You are constantly reminded of the volcano that spilled over Pompeii almost 2,000 years ago. Today this is a worthwhile destination. And then Amalfi invites to a long day trip or a connecting stay. Also Capri, Ischia and the Aeolian Islands. You could easily spend months there.
But the highlight of your musical journey is the visit to the Teatro San Carlo to a performance of your choice.
“IL TURCO IN ITALIA”, Gioachino Rossini • From 13 to 26 March 2021
Il Turco in Italia – Season 2021 – The new events calendar after COVID – update from September 2020
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
- Saturday 13 March, h 19.00
- Tuesday 16 March, h 20.00
- Thursday 18 March, h 18.00
- Sunday 21 March, h 17.00
- Tuesday 23 March, h 20.00
- Friday 26 March, h 20.00
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.
Travel Description
Music trip Naples superior
- Gourmet Dinner
- Exclusive city walking tour in your language
- Aperitif with light dinner before the performance in a famous caffetteria
- Premium tickets in the parquet area at the San Carlo opera house
- 2 nights accommodation with breakfast
Program day by day
Day 1
- Arrival at the hotel
- Dinner at a typical Italian restaurant near the hotel (3-course menu, including drinks)
- Overnight in a hotel in Naples
Day 2
- Breakfast buffet at the hotel
- Exclusive personal guided walking tour in your language
- Before going to the theater; Aperitif with appetizers in a historic place
- Opera or Ballet performance at the San Carlo opera house
- Overnight in a hotel in Naples
Day 3
- Breakfast buffet at the hotel
- Departure and end of the program
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