L’Italiana in Algeri

Composer: ROSSINI, Gioachino
  • Rossini L’italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) for the Teatro S. Benedetto, where it premiered on May 22, 1813.1
  • Rossini’s Grove’s article calls this “the zaniest of all buffo operas”2
  • Rossini composed this opera in 27 days (yikes) because the Teatro S. Benedetto needed a new show to recoup after a failed performance, and the first composer from whom they had ordered an opera never delivered his.3
  • Synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera

Sources

  1. Philip Gossett, “Rossini, Gioachino,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 8, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000023901. 
  2. Ibid.
  3.  Richard Osborne, “Italiana in Algeri, L’,” Grove Music Online (2002), accessed January 8, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000005901. 

Cut IDs

11133, 40183, 44436