Movie Description

Il Turco in Italia - Rossini

(1995)

Overview

Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (with the same title) by the German composer Franz Seydelmann in 1788. Recorded at the Theatre by Caen, France, 1995 (Opera buffa in two acts)