Washington National Opera: L'Italiana in Algeri
- May 13 - Jun 3, 2006
- Opera House
- 2 hrs. 55 min.
- $45.00 - $290.00
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About the Program
ARTISTS AND CAST:Conductor Riccardo Frizza
Isabella Olga Borodina
Lindoro Juan Diego Flórez (May 13, 15, 18, 21m, 24, 26)
Robert McPherson (May 30, June 3)
Elvira Lyubov Petrova
Mustafa Ildar Abdrazakov
Taddeo Bruno de Simone
In Italian with English supertitles.
NOTES: Supertitles not visible from Rear Orchestra.
Rossini's hilarious romp L'Italiana in Algeri brings WNO's 50th season to an end. For this story of a gutsy Italian girl who outwits a lust-driven Pasha, Plácido Domingo has assembled a dream cast with the great Olga Borodina in the mezzo-coloratura title role and the internationally acclaimed Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez in the high-flying coloratura role of Lindoro. The renowned Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov (who happens to be Ms. Borodina's real-life husband) is the sex-crazed Pasha Mustafa. The opera is conducted by Riccardo Frizza, who led the company's brilliant 2004 production of La Cenerentola, and David Kneuss directs.
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Reviews and Articles
Review - "'L'Italiana in Algeri': Tour De Force"
The Washington Post - Washington, DC (May 15, 2006) "Washington National Opera's production of Gioacchino Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri," which opened Saturday night at the Kennedy Center, is a smashing success..." Read More...
The Washington Post - Washington, DC (May 15, 2006) "Washington National Opera's production of Gioacchino Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri," which opened Saturday night at the Kennedy Center, is a smashing success..." Read More...
Related – "Opera Sets 'Sophie's Choice' for '06
The Washington Post– Washington, DC (Dec.6, 2005)
The Washington Post– Washington, DC (Dec.6, 2005)
"Washington National Opera will present the North American premiere of Nicholas Maw's "Sophie's Choice," based on the best-selling novel by William Styron, as part of the company's 2006-07 season, it was announced yesterday."
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Related Article - "Peru's Peak Performer"
The Washington Post - Washington, DC (May 14, 2006) "The 33-year-old singer fills the role of Lindoro in Gioacchino Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri" ...a comic opera about the escape of a loving couple from the clutches of an iron-fisted if benighted dictator." Read More...
The Washington Post - Washington, DC (May 14, 2006) "The 33-year-old singer fills the role of Lindoro in Gioacchino Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri" ...a comic opera about the escape of a loving couple from the clutches of an iron-fisted if benighted dictator." Read More...
Related Article – "Washington Opera To Give Wagner's 'Ring' a New, American Setting"
The Washington, Post Washington, DC ( Jan. 3, 2006) "One test of a masterpiece is its ability to withstand many different interpretations. Who would have imagined that the maverick director Peter Sellars could have set Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" in a lavish apartment in Trump Tower and still have the opera seem absolutely true to its 18th-century origins? Director Jonathan Miller placed the action of Verdi's "Rigoletto" in New York's Little Italy, and Frank Corsaro had the same composer's Violetta ("La Traviata") expire in an AIDS ward." Read More...
The Washington, Post Washington, DC ( Jan. 3, 2006) "One test of a masterpiece is its ability to withstand many different interpretations. Who would have imagined that the maverick director Peter Sellars could have set Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" in a lavish apartment in Trump Tower and still have the opera seem absolutely true to its 18th-century origins? Director Jonathan Miller placed the action of Verdi's "Rigoletto" in New York's Little Italy, and Frank Corsaro had the same composer's Violetta ("La Traviata") expire in an AIDS ward." Read More...
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