Rossini Opera Festival: Il Turco in Italia

Year: 2016
Country: Italy
Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
Director & Stage Designer: Davide Livermore
Conductor: Speranza Scappucci
Costume designer: Gianluca Falaschi
Lighting designer: Nicolas Bovey
Cast: Erwin Schrott, Olga Peretyatko, Nicola Alaimo, Pietro Spagnoli, René Barbera, Cecilia Molinari, Pietro Adaini
Genre: opera
Runtime: 180 min.
Age: 16+
The performance of Il turco in Italia at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro is presented as a totally renewed production. With references to films of the iconic film director Federico Fellini “Davide Livermore brought it all together adding the perfect physical comic schtick that matched up perfectly with the musical pace of Rossini’s masterpiece - it was spectacular” (Opera Today). “Obviously the brilliant outcome of the performance is also due to Speranza Scapucci’s conducting, well prepared and highly talented, …” (Il Resto del Carlino Pesaro). The cast featuring Erwin Schrott, “who manages the most intricate colloratura effortlessly with his agile, beautiful bass- baritone...” (General-Anzeiger) and Olga Peretyatko being “the ideal cast” (Das Opernglas) made it a marvellous performance.