Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera Il turco in Italia invites us to delve into the melodramatic and sweet world of 1940s photo-novels through this production directed by Giacomo Sagripanti and Laurent Pelly, featuring the acclaimed soprano Lisette Oropesa in the title role.
This wild comedy of errors tells the story of the flirtatious Fiorilla who, addicted to reading serialised novels, imagines a fast-paced romance brimming with eroticism alongside the seductive Prince Selim. One day, the Turkish heartthrob comes to life and bursts into her world, creating a series of entanglements marked by a game of disguises, beneath which lie the great dilemmas of the soul.
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 Teatro Real, in co-production with Ópera de Lyon and New National Theatre Tokyo
Artistic team
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
Fiorilla | Lisette Oropesa
Don Geronio | Misha Kiria
Don Narciso | Edgardo Rocha
Prosdocimo Poet | Florian Sempey
Zaida | Paola Gardina
Albazar | Pablo García-López
Teatro Real Chrorus and Orchestra
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