L’Italiana in Algeri

A classic of our festival, L’Italiana in Algeri has been performed three times: these include the production by Egisto Marcucci (1981), conducted by Donato Renzetti and revived the following year; the production by Dario Fo (1994), also conducted by Renzetti and revived in 2006; and the production by Davide Livermore (2013), conducted by José Ramón Encinar.
This year’s brand new production has been entrusted to Rosetta Cucchi’s creativity and Dmitry Korchak’s baton. “At a time when rights, identities and artistic freedoms are once again being called into question,” explains Cucchi, “musical theatre must return to being a space for intelligent, playful and seductive disobedience.” Opera buffa is a space for disguise, role reversal, and freedom from imposed codes. Sultan Mustafa, a dominant and vain man, is not defused by a victim, but by an artist who uses her body as a manifesto. With this production, Rossini does not disguise himself; he frees himself”.

Published in : 28 June 2025