Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Wiener Staatsoper

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchino Rossini penned the masterful comic opera “L’Italiana in Algeri” (“The Italian Girl in Algiers”) in less than a month. The composer’s youthful exuberance comes across in this infectious 1987 performance. Though she’s known mainly for he...

Runtime

2h 29m

Cast

Doris Soffel, Robert Gambill, Günter von Kannen

Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.

Runtime

2h 52m

Director

François Roussillon

Cast

Neil Shicoff, Bryn Terfel, Susanne Mentzer

The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD release. Recorded in 2005 under the musical direction of Maurizio Barbacini, Fo's production brings fresh vitality and colour to the story of Lisetta, and of her father Don Pomponio's increasingly ridiculous attempts to find a husband for her ...

Cast

Cinzia Forte, Bruno Praticò, Pietro Spagnoli

Cast

Wolfgang Brendel, Victor von Halem, David Griffith

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit. Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occupied France, was one of the highlights of the Met’s 2015–16 season. Massimo Cavalletti...

Runtime

2h 24m

Cast

Kristine Opolais, Roberto Alagna, Massimo Cavalletti