Il Turco in Italia

De Nederlandse Opera stages a run of Rossini's opera buffa at Amsterdam's Muziektheater. It features love, intrigues, mix-ups, romantic entanglements and everything else you'd expect in the genre.

The poet's view

The story is centred on a poet who wishes to write a libretto and finds his characters in a supposedly unfaithful spouse, an attractive Turkish prince and a naive youth; all three become entangled in the games of the poet, who manipulates his victims as channels for his own desires. The absurd situations become increasingly hilarious, until the intrigue seems to unravel of its own accord.

Audiovisual spectacle

The production transfers the story to a modern Italian suburb; video artist Martin Eidenberger adds a multitude of visual treats. The young French-German director David Hermann celebrates his DNO debut with this production, and Carlo Rizzi conducts the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Although Rizzi is a DNO veteran, this is the first time that this celebrated Rossini interpreter conducts a Rossini opera at DNO.