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Welser-Möst conducts Rossini: Il Turco in Italia

Welser-Möst conducts Rossini: Il Turco in Italia

Opera

Zurich Opera

Production Date: 28/04/2002
135 Min

A romantic poet, a gypsy girl, a spirited young wife and an Ottoman pasha: throw them together under the blue skies of Naples and the result is an opera buffa that's precisely as fizzy and as farcical as you'd imagine from Rossini at the absolute top of his game. Il Turco in Italia is exuberant (and distinctly spicy) fun in the sun and Cesare Lievi's delightful, candy-coloured 2002 staging from the Zurich Opera House has a cast to die for: with Cecilia Bartoli, no less, as the capricious Fiorilla and the veteran Ruggiero Raimondi exuding charisma and warmth as the Turk Selim.

Soloists
Cecilia Bartoli (Mezzo-Soprano), Ruggero Raimondi (Bass), Paolo Rúmetz (Baritone), Reinaldo Macias (Tenor), Oliver Widmer (Bass-Baritone), Judith Schmid (Mezzo-Soprano), Valery Tsarev (Tenor)
Ensembles
Chor des Opernhauses Zürich, Orchester des Opernhauses Zürich
Conductor
Franz Welser-Möst