Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy, 2007, 165 min) is the last opera of this special screening series dedicated to Gioachino Rossini thanks to a new collaboration between the IIC and the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) in Pesaro, Italy.
The Turk in Italy is a madcap ensemble opera with an inspired score that boasts music of both comic genius and extraordinary beauty. Set in Naples, it spins a crazy tale around a poet who uses the romantic entanglements of the inhabitants with a Turkish prince as inspiration for the plot of his next play and ultimately life imitates art.
Soprano Elisabetta Russo, baritone Roberto Perlas Gomez and pianist Twyla Meyer will hold a special performance to close the series.
RSVP mandatory.