L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI

an opera by Gioachino Rossini

Conductor Ivaylo Krinchev
Director Ursula Horner
Scenography Maria Veterovska
Costumes Maria Popuchevska
Lighting Desighner Vasko Lisichkov
Choirmaster Mladen Stanev
Concertmaster Paulina Zaharieva
Orchestra and Choir of the Stara Zagora State Opera

Mustafa – Ivaylo Dzhurov
Elvira – Desi Stefanova
Zulma – Emiliya Dzhurova
Hally – Edwin Cay
Lindoro – Rodrigo Trossino /Italy/
Isabella – Petya Petrova
Taddeo – Valeri Turmanov
Sets and Costumes of the Northern Macedonia Opera and Ballet
The production was realized with the support of the Balkan Opera Network

The spectacle is about the eternal themes of love and the contested freedom of women and their right to choice, recreated in an entertaining and original way by the director Ursula Horner.  She brought the action from 18^th into the first decades of 20^th century, when technological and fashion inventions invaded the Orient as well. Horner is known to the Bulgarian audiences for her spectacle of the opera “The Tales of Hoffmann” by Jacques Offenbach in Ruse and Plovdiv, “Il trovatore” in Plovdiv and “The Barber of Seville” by Rossini of the Macedonian Opera and Ballet, which guest-performed at the Festival of the Opera and Ballet Arts in Stara Zagora 2018.

Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes with one interval
Performed in Italian with titles in Bulgarian
Premiere: 9 March 2019