Opera

The Turk in Italy

Il Turco in Italia

Gioachino Rossini

31 May, 23 - 12 Jun, 23

Musical Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti | Stage Director: Laurent Pelly | Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

31 May 23

Premiere

12 Jun 23

Last performance

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Laurent Pelly transposes the story of Il turco in Italia to the melodramatic universe of the fotonovelas of the 1940s. The protagonist, Fiorilla, a free, feminist and daring woman, singular in the lyric repertoire of the 19th century, marks the events of a score vindicated by the quality of its music and the modernity of the themes that underlie the libretto of this opera buffa. A modern proposal that involves us in the life of a play that takes place within another play, making us have fun trying to decipher the line between the real and the fantastic.

Following the example of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, Ottorino Respighi retrieved the music of Rossini for his ballet La Boutique fantasque in 1919. Likewise, three years later, Igor Stravinsky composed his opera Mavra inspired by the opera buffa of Rossini. Nevertheless - and in keeping with his autobiography - it was probably Alfredo Casella, who was the first important composer to see the “Swan” of Pésaro with eyes of the 20th century. In effect, it is almost impossible to not recognise in the libretto of Il turco in Italia similar premises which made Luigi Pirandello, also around 1920, a vanguard figure of theatre. In other words: the modernity which Respighi, Stravinsky or Casella were intent on finding, had already been discovered a century before by Rossini.

Il turco in Italia, with its six characters in search of an author, its creative poet and a scintillating score, is a predestined tasty morsel for Laurent Pelly. The acclaimed and experienced master of comedy whom we have admired in La Fille du Régiment, Falstaff and Viva la mamma!, among other titles, will direct the staging of this hilarious comedy in a new production which promises to become, once again, a classic.

Dramma buffo in two acts

Music by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Libretto by Felice Romani, based on the homonymous work by Caterino Mazzolà

Premiere at the Teatro alla Scala de Milán el 14 August 1814

Premiere at the Teatro Real

New production of the Teatro Real, en coproducción con la Ópera de Lyon y el New National Theatre Tokyo

Artistic team

Musical Conductor | Giacomo Sagripanti

Stage Director and Costume Designer | Laurent Pelly

Costume Collaborator | Jean-Jacques Delmotte

Stage Designer | Chantal Thomas

Chorus Director | Andrés Máspero

Cast

Selim | Alex Esposito - 31 may; 2, 4, 6, 9, 12 jun

Adrian Sampetrean - 1, 3, 7, 11 jun

Fiorilla | Lisette Oropesa - 4, 6, 9, 12 jun

Sara Blanch - 31 may; 2, 7, 11 jun

Sabina Puértolas - 1, 3 jun

Don Geronio | Misha Kiria - 31 may; 2, 4, 6, 9, 12 jun

Pietro Spagnoli - 1, 3, 7, 11 jun

Don Narciso | Edgardo Rocha - 31 may; 2, 4, 6, 9, 12 jun

Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani - 1, 3, 7, 11 jun

Prosdocimo Poet | Florian Sempey - 31 may; 2, 4, 6, 9, 12 jun

Mattia Olivieri - 1, 3, 7, 11 jun

Zaida | Paola Gardina - 31 may, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12 jun

Chiara Amarù - 1, 3, 7, 11 jun

Albazar | Pablo García-López

Principal Chrorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

* The soprano Lisette Oropesa is suffering from a flu that prevents her from performing at the premiere on 31 May 2023. For this reason, on the performances of 31 May, 1, 2 and 3 June, the role of FIORILLA will be played by sopranos Sara Blanch (31 May and 2 June) and Sabina Puértolas (1 June and 3 June)

Leer menos

Door opening: 1 hour before the performance
Act I: 1 hour and 26 minutes
Interval: 25 minutes
Act II: 1 hour and 10 minutes

Artistic information

Artistic team

Musical conductor Giacomo Sagripanti

Dirección de escena y figurines Laurent Pelly

Escenógrafa Chantal Thomas

Colaborador de vestuario Jean-Jacques Delmotte

Chorus Conductor Andrés Máspero

Cast

Selim Alex Esposito

Selim Adrian Sâmpetrean

Fiorilla Lisette Oropesa

Fiorilla Sara Blanch

Fiorilla Sabina Puértolas

Don Geronimo Mischa Kiria

Don Geronimo Pietro Spagnoli

Don Narciso Edgardo Rocha

Don Narciso Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani

Poeta Prosdocimo Florian Sempey

Poeta Prosdocimo Mattia Olivieri

Zaida Paola Gardina

Zaida Chiara Amarù

Albazar Pablo García López

Il turco in Italia, de Gioachino Rossini

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31 May 2023