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A revival of Mariame Clément's production of Rossini's less-loved comic gem provides the sense of Italian sun to warm the body and belly laughs to warm the soul.

Mariame Clément's hilarious and brilliantly original staging of Rossini's opera buffa is served with a generous helping of Rossinian bel canto. Who could ask for more?

A concert performance makes our reviewer at the Teatro San Carlo pine for a return to staged opera. 

In Il turco in Italia, Gioachino Rossini’s command of spiritedness and musical timing is well matched by the plot of lovers’ infidelities.

Turco inspired many a great opera director in the past; understandably, as it offers plenty of splendid comic situations. Simon Phillips' hilarious 2014 production is revived by Opera Australia.

Garsington's latest Rossini buffa is on the nail orchestrally, mixed vocally and one of the best pieces of acting and stage movement you'll see in opera.

Mark Lamos' staging is a riot of colour and movement; George Souglides gives us a masterclass in costumery; fine Italian singing illuminates this Norwegian première for Rossini's madcap Il turco in Italia.

In Livermore's staging the scheme becomes meta-cinematographic: the poet Prosdocimus here has Marcello Mastroianni's features in Fellini's film 8 ½.

Aleksandra Kurzak delivers a top drawer performance as Fiorilla, leading a star-studded cast as Evelino Pidò gives us a lesson in how to conduct Rossini in the latest revival of Il turco in Italia.

Alden’s mise-en-scène developed the most modern aspects of Il turco's libretto. The stage not only showed what the Poet was participating towards, but the other characters also seemed to perform the poet’s conception of his own work. 

There's much to recommend this Turco, including stunning vocal fireworks by Olga Peretyatko and moments of comedic gold in the staging. But this production also reinforces some ugly racial and gender stereotypes.

Opera Australia's laugh-out-loud production of Il Turco in Italia (“The Turk in Italy”) by Rossini at the Sydney Opera House combines vocal excellence and strong characterisation.

Le metteur en scène signe une nouvelle production réjouissante, reprenant à bon escient les codes de la fotonovela. La distribution et la direction contribuent à faire de ce Turc en Italie un événement.

Reparto de la nueva producción dirigida por Laurent Pelly encabezado por Sabina Puértolas y repleto de voces rossinianas quienes, junto a una orquesta rotunda, llevaron a buen término el enredo buffo.

Laurent Pelly traslada el divertido Il turco in Italia a los años sesenta en una producción que cuenta con unas voces puramente rossinianas.

Die Inszenierung von Rossinis Il turco in Italia an der Bayerischen Staatsoper kann musikalisch überzeugen, in die Inszenierung sollte man allerdings nicht zu viel interpretieren.