L'Italiana in Algeri [The Italian Girl in Algiers] (complete opera)

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L'Italiana in Algeri [The Italian Girl in Algiers] (complete opera)
Mariana Pizzolato / Lorenzo Regazzo / Lawrence Brownlee / Bruno de Simone / Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir / Virtuosi Brunensis / Alberto Zedda

[ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 1 June 2010

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Using the critical edition by Azio Corghi, this recording of L'Italiana in Algeri was made at a jubilee performance of the XXth Rossini in Wildbad Festival in 2008.

For his tenth opera, the already celebrated 21-year-old Rossini wanted 'a humorous libretto full of spectacle'.

This spirited opera, completed in barely a month, scored an immediate hit and its manic atmosphere of 'organized, total lunacy', as Stendhal put it, has ensured its enduring popularity.