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Gioachino Rossini’s L'Italiana in Algeri HISTORY Premiere Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, May 22, 1813, with the following cast: Isabella, Marietta Marcolini; Mustafà, Filippo Galli; Elvira, Luttgard Annibaldi; Zulma, Annunziata Berni Chelli; Haly, Giuseppe Spirito; Lindoro, Serafino Gentili; Taddeo, Paolo Rosich. Last performed by Washington National Opera May-June 2006, in the Kennedy Center Opera House, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and conducted by Riccardo Frizza, with the following cast: Lindoro, Juan Diego Flórez/Robert McPherson; Isabella, Olga Borodina; Elvira, Lyubov Petrova; Zulma, Leslie Mutchler; Haly, Valeriano Lanchas; Mustafà, Ildar Abdrazakov; Taddeo, Bruno de Simone Gioachino Rossini’s Operas Demetrio e Polibio , 1812; Teatro Valle, Rome La cambiale di matrimonio, 1810; Teatro San Moisè, Venice L’equivoco stravagante, 1811; Teatro del Corso, Bologna L’inganno felice, 1812; Teatro San Moisè, Venice Ciro in Babilonia, o sia La caduta di Baldassare, 1812; Teatro Comunale, Ferrara La scala di seta, 1812; Teatro San Moisè, Venice La pietra del paragone, 1812; Teatro alla Scala, Milan L’occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia, 1812; Teatro San Moisè, Venice Il Signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo, 1813; Teatro San Moisè, Venice Tancredi, 1813; Teatro La Fenice, Venice L’italiana in Algeri, 1813; Teatro San Benedetto, Venice Aureliano in Palmira, 1813; Teatro alla Scala, Milan Il turco in Italia, 1814; Teatro alla Scala, Milan Sigismondo, 1814; Teatro La Fenice, Venice Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra, 1815; Teatro San Carlo, Naples Torvaldo e Dorliska, 1815; Teatro Valle, Rome Almaviva, o sia L’inutile precauzione, 1816; Teatro Argentina, Rome Known as Il barbiere di Siviglia La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso, 1816; Teatro de’ Fiorentini, Naples Washington National Opera www.dc-opera.org 202.295.2400 · 800.US.OPERA .

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