Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri

Also available on Blu-ray Gioachino Rossini L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI Isabella - Anna Goryachova Mustafà - Alex Esposito Lindoro - Yijie Shi Taddeo - Mario Cass Teatro Comunale di Bologna Chorus and Orchestra José Ramón Encinar, conductor Davide Livermore, stage director Recorded live at the Pesaro Festival, August 2013 Bonus: - The making of L’Italiana in Algeri - Cast gallery Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: LPCM 2.0 / DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 (worldwide) Subtitles: English, French, German, Korean Running time: 153 mins No. of DVDs: 1 Pesaro’s new offering in 2013 was an off-the-wall production of Rossini’s popular comedy, ‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’, presented as a Swinging Sixties, James Bond adventure, set in the desert oil fields of the North African coast. Davide Livermore’s gag-a-minute, helter-skelter romp followed an alarmingly life-like air-crash, which delivered the ‘Italian girl’ from Rome into the clutches of the loc