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• Il turco in Italia (1814) • Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) • Guillaume Tell (1829) |
“Il turco in Italia” by Gioachino Rossini
The Turk in Italy, Le Turc en Italie, Турок в ИталииPremiere / date of written: 14 August 1814
Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (with the same title) by the German composer Franz Seydelmann in 1788.
An opera buffa, it was influenced by Mozart's Così fan tutte, which was performed at the same theatre shortly before Rossini's work. The strangely harmonized overture, though infrequently recorded, is one of the best examples of Rossini's characteristic style. An unusually long introduction displays an extended, melancholy horn solo with full orchestral accompaniment, before giving way to a lively, purely comic main theme.
Il turco in Italia was first performed in La Scala, Milan on 14 August 1814. It was given in London at His Majesty's Theatre on 19 May with Giuseppe and Giuseppina de Begnis. It was first staged in New York at the Park Theatre on 14 March 1826 with Maria Malibran, Manuel García Senior, Manuel García Junior, Barbieri, Crivelli, Rosich and Agrisani.
Libretti
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Italian
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Felice Romani |
| 2 |
German
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| 3 |
English
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| 4 |
French
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original libretto
line-by-line of the original libretto
External links
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Sheet Music — www.sheetmusicplus.com