Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (2007)
• July 30th, 2007 • 2h 15min
Music, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Overview
Live performance, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, July 2006. 'L'italiana in Algeri' (English: 'The Italian Girl in Algiers') is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca. It premiered at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on 22 May 1813. The music is characteristic of Rossini's style, remarkable for its fusion of sustained, manic energy with elegant, pristine melodies.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Climax
Released on: 1944-10-20
Music, Horror, Thriller
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...
Don Giovanni
Released on: 1990-04-05
Music, Drama
Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who bri...
Norma
Released on: 2007-07-25
Music, Drama
NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous je...
Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle
Released on: 1978-07-10
Music, Drama
TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After ...
Così fan tutte
Released on: 2006-11-25
Music
Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks ...
The Right to Live
Released on: 1935-01-26
Drama
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
A Night at the Opera
Released on: 1935-11-15
Comedy, Music
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Released on: 2009-10-27
Music
At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected a...
Tristan und Isolde
Released on: 1983-10-01
Music
Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...
Der Freischütz
Released on: 1999-03-01
Music, Drama
The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz a...
The Magic Flute
Released on: 2006-09-07
Comedy, Drama, Music
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...
Royal Opera House: The Queen of Spades
Released on: 2019-01-22
Music
The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession...
Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie
Released on: 2014-02-26
Music
Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...
The Newspaper
Released on: 2005-01-01
Music
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...
Handel: Admeto
Released on: 2006-01-01
Music
Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...
Don Quichotte
Released on: 2010-06-15
Music
This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...
Verdi La Traviata
Released on: 1992-08-14
Music
This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Released on: 2021-08-07
Music
Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...
Farinelli
Released on: 1994-12-01
History, Drama, Music
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Korngold: Die tote Stadt
Released on: 2019-12-01
Music
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed...