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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:L’Italiana in Algeri
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DESCRIPTION:After LA RONDINE and DIE FLEDERMAUS\, Rolando Villazón returns
  as director to demonstrate his comic talent with one of bel canto's great
  operatic comedies. The fact that L'ITALIANA continues to inspire enthusia
 sm today is undoubtedly due to the musical sophistication that makes Rossi
 ni the undisputed king of opera buffa... Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi\;
  Director: Rolando Villazón\; With\, among others\, Tommaso Barea\, Jonah
  Hoskins\, Aigul Akhmetshina\, Misha Kiria\nFollowing on from Puccini’s 
 LA RONDINE and Johann Strauss’s DIE FLEDERMAUS\, Rolando Villazón retur
 ns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin to tackle one of the great comedies of the 
 bel canto genre and demonstrate that he can do humour. L’ITALIANA IN ALG
 ERI remains one of the most popular works by Gioacchino Rossini\, who is s
 aid to have dashed the piece off in less than a month and was a tender 21 
 years of age when the opera premiered at Venice’s Teatro San Benedetto i
 n 1813. It’s a testament to Rossini’s boldness that he chose material 
 that had been set to music only a few years before by his more experienced
  colleague Luigi Mosca. His audacity paid off\, with the subsequent triump
 h bringing him immediate fame across Italy and widespread popularity soon 
 afterwards throughout Europe.\n\nMustafa\, the Bey of Algiers\, has grown 
 weary of his wife Elvira. This wry tale of his amorous extramarital aspira
 tions and the schemes of the reunited lovers Lindora and Isabella to thwar
 t him\, coupled with the exotic setting\, resonated strongly with audience
 s of the day. The rising fascination since the 18th century for non-Europe
 an cultures was finding artistic expression and making inroads into the wo
 rld of opera. That said\, it is undoubtedly thanks to Rossini’s musical 
 sophistication that L’ITALIANA continues to excite operagoers today and 
 the maestro remains the undisputed king of opera buffa. Many of the solo n
 umbers are straight out of the bel canto playbook – renditions such as L
 indoro’s sweeping cavatina “Languir per una bella”\, which pushes ev
 en the best tenor to the limit\, and Isabella’s famous introductory aria
  “Cruda sorte” with its rich plunges and rousing coloraturas. So it wa
 s that Rossini found a style with L’ITALIANA which earns him the reveren
 ce of fans to this day.\n\nSpotlightAigul Akhmetshina was only 21 when she
  gave her breakout international performance as Carmen at the Royal Opera 
 in London\, a role that she has gone on to sing at the Salzburg Festival a
 nd venues such as the Arena di Verona\, the Wiener Staatsoper\, the New Yo
 rk Metropolitan Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The mezzo-soprano also
  thrilled Bismarckstrasse audiences with her Rosina – another signature 
 role of Akhmetshina’s - in Katharina Thalbach’s much-loved production 
 of Rossini’s BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Her many accolades include the 2023 I
 nternational Opera Award as Female Singer of the Year and the 2025 OPER! A
 WARD for her acclaimed first solo album. She now makes her debut as Isabel
 la in a brand-new production of L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI.
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