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This new production of Rossini’s zany classic makes hay with the obviousness of the caricatures on which it’s built
24 May 2021 • 3:14pm You can rely on Rossini to defy right-on pieties : the new Glyndebourne production of Il turnco in Italia
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Good old Rossini. You can always rely on him to offend the right-on pieties of the age with some shocking stereotypes. The comedy Il turco in Italia, composed when Rossini was a stripling of 22, has plenty. Women are flighty, old men are simpletons, gypsies are untrustworthy, Turks are randy (especially for other men’s wives), Italians ditto.
Rescue, as well as traditional and popular songs. View here for three days.
7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s
Luisa Miller. Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.
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The Big Opera Show. A journey through Seattle Opera s upcoming season featuring special guests and a performance by tenor, Lawrence Brownlee, who got his start in Seattle Opera’s young artist program.
The Big Opera Show is hosted by actor, director, and emcee Rebecca M. Davis with performers including Kenneth Kellogg and Karen Vuong. No fee to attend but donations made during the event will allow Seattle Opera to keep singing until it is safe to gather again. Register and view here.
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