| L'Italiana in Algeri |
| Rossini wrote �L�Italiana in Algeri� for the San Benedetto Theatre in Venice during a remarkable span of five months where he wrote three new operas (�Il Signor Bruschino�, �Tancredi� and �L�Italiana in Algeri�) for the city�s opera houses. (Source) |
| �L�Italiana in Algeri� is one of those operas which put severe technical demands on the principals. All the major roles involve significant amounts of fioriture and some pretty fiendish ensembles; all of this in a comic opera. (Source) |
| Beethoven, Handel and Rossini had written "rescue" operas found in the 2005-06 SFO Season- works about one lover rescuing another from misfortune. And, all of theses operas have the same twist in the usual, rescue plot: the roles are reversed. In Beethoven's Fidelio, Handel's Rodelinda and Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri , it's the man who's in trouble and the woman who does the rescuing. |
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| Roles Isabella, the Italian girl - lyric mezzo/ contralto Lindoro, in love with Isabella - lyric tenor Taddeo, an elderly Italian - lyric bass Mustaf�, the Bey of Algiers - comic bass Elvira, his wife soprano Zulma, her confidante mezzo-soprano Haly/ Ali, the captain of the Bey's guard - lyric bass Harem women (silent);Eunuchs, pirates, slaves, sailors - Male chorus |