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Date

Sunday, March 8, 2015 2:30PM

Name

L'Italiana in Algeri

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Prices: $28-$188
Prices include a $3.00 per ticket Facility Fee

Opera Santa Barbara Presents
L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI
by Gioachino Rossini

By One of Rossini’s most exquisite successes, from a composer who was just 21 at the time he composed it, L’Italiana in Algeri perfectly blends Rossini’s talent of mixing opera seria with opera buffa, creating a work that has retained all its charm and humor, to a score as fresh today as it was when it was written and characters who seem to have been born yesterday. The beautiful Isabella sails off to Algiers in search of her lover Lindoro, held prisoner by the tyrant Mustafa. However, the ship runs aground and the adventure begins. There are pirates, a seraglio, eunuchs, a palace by the sea, all set in a Turkish style still in vogue during the early years of the 19th century. There are also some beautiful and brilliant arias with a virtuosity that was Rossini's hallmark.

~ In Italian with English translations above the stage


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