Rossini's Il turco in Italia: the strife of a poet pining for inspiration

Von Edoardo Pelligra, 14 März 2015

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro Regio di Torino, Turin, am 12 März 2015

Rossini, Il turco in Italia

Teatro Regio di Torino

Daniele Rustioni, Musikalische Leitung

Christopher Alden, Regie

Nino Machaidze, Fiorilla

Edgardo Rocha, Don Narciso

Simone Del Savio, Prosdocimo

Carlo Lepore, Selim

Paolo Bordogna, Don Geronio

Nicht perfekt, aber unterhaltsam: L'elisir d’amore in Turin

Isabella Steppan, 22nd April

Die gestreamte Vorstellung von Donizettis Oper aus dem Teatro Regio hätte noch deutlich Luft nach oben gehabt, war aber dennoch charmant.

**111

Riccardo Muti triumphs with Un ballo in maschera in Turin

Laura Servidei, 23rd February

The Teatro Regio di Torino presents Andrea de Rosa's new production of Verdi’s operal, with a solid cast under the baton of Riccardo Muti.

***11

The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season

Renato Verga, 3rd October

The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.

**111

The first modern staged performance of Paër’s Agnese in Turin

Laura Servidei, 17th March

The Teatro Regio presents a Classical rarity with echoes of Mozart and anticipations of Rossini. Diego Fasolis conducts with imagination and spunk.

***11

In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day

Renato Verga, 10th October

Female voices dominate in the vocal cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen debuts as Leonora and charms the audience; Anna Maria Chiuri has the temperament and rich vocality requested by the role of the gypsy.

***11

A strong Italian cast for Così fan tutte in Turin

Laura Servidei, 1st July

Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.

****1

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Edoardo Pelligra

Edoardo is a philosophy student in Torino, Italy. He has always been fond of classical music and operas and tries to combine his philosophical studies with music and especially philosophy of music. He is particularly enthusiastic about opera modern adaptations. Edoardo also maintains a strong passion for films, literature and travelling. He also writes reviews in Italian for Operaclick.