Il Turco In Italia

"The turk in Italy" (Il Turco in Italia) is one of the funniest operas of Gioachino Rossini! Gioachino Rossini has created a series of operas by great success worldwide. Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (with the same title) by the German composer Franz Seydelmann in 1788.

An opera buffa, it was influenced by Mozart's Così fan tutte, which was performed at the same theatre shortly before Rossini's work. The strangely harmonized overture, though infrequently recorded, is one of the best examples of Rossini's characteristic style. An unusually long introduction displays an extended, melancholy horn solo with full orchestral accompaniment, before giving way to a lively, purely comic main theme.

Anno di incisione: 1954
Calabrese, Franco - Don Geronio
Callas, Maria - Donna Fiorilla
Cantamessa - Clavicembalista
Coro del Teatro alla Scala
De Palma, Piero - Albazar
Gardino, Jolanda - Zaida
Gedda, Nicolai - Don Narciso

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Romani, Felice - libretto
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea Direttore