150 years ago, the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini died. In his honour, Salzburg's Whitsun Festival presented the opera buffa 'L'Italiana in Algeri' amongst other works of his era. It is 150 years ...
Toward the end of the opera, Isabella revs up her fellow, Italian captives with the aria "Pensa alla patria" — "Think of the fatherland." This recording is by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. In the ...
Want to watch 'Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri' tonight? We’ve rounded up platforms and services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can find the right fit. Right now in the US, ...
He Sang/She Sang is a new podcast from WQXR for the opera-curious and opera superfans who want to know what all those big voices are really singing about. The podcast follows the radio broadcast ...
Bubbly buoyancy brings the Washington National Opera season to a close in a nicely-conceived high-energy production of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri. This irreverent tickler delivers just about ...
In rehearsal with stage director Ben Robinson for L'Italiana in Algeri at Opera in the Heights. Credit: Photo by Eiki Isomura Combine a helter skelter libretto with a classic Rossini score complete ...
It’s possible that in future times this set will be something of a collector’s item, thanks to the Isabella of its 29-year-old Russian mezzo, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya. Conchita Supervia, the ...
If this was, indeed, Bartoli’s first Isabella, it was worth the wait. When she arrived as a Rossini ingénue in the late 1980s, she was an indifferent actress. No longer. Nowadays she’s a consummate ...
Unfortunately, this isn’t a CD, so unless you are looking for two and a half hours of 1970s-themed, multicoloured, multimedia mayhem you would be advised to steer clear. Turning Mustafà into a ...
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