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Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Rossini - Il Turco in Italia

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29/09/2016

Rossini - Il Turco in Italia

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Rossini's Opera Il Turco in Italia performed at the 2016 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

Katie Derham presents Rossini's opera Il Turco in Italia performed at the 2016 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Speranza Scappucci conducts the G Rossini Symphony Orchestra.

Katie Derham presents Rossini's Opera Il Turco in Italia recorded at this year's Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, conducted by Speranza Scappucci, starring Erwin Schrott and Olga Peretyatko.

In one of Rossini's comic masterpieces, Neapolitan live-wire Fiorilla is bored with her husband and quickly falls for the dashing visitor from Turkey, Selim. Much flirtation, intrigue and mishap ensues: will the course of true love run smooth...???

Selim ... Erwin Schrott (bass-baritone) 
Fiorilla ... Olga Peretyatko (soprano)
Geronio ... Nicola Alaimo (baritone) 
Narciso ... René Barbera (tenor) 
Prosdocimo ... Pietro Spagnoli (baritone) 
Zaida ... Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano) 
Albazar ... Levy Sekgapane (tenor) 
Teatro della Fortuna M. Agostini Chorus 
G. Rossini Symphony Orchestra 
Speranza Scappucci (conductor).

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