Two Opera Companies Gear Up for Rossini (2)

May 29, 2014 605

by Amy Lilly

Vermont's hills are alive with slowly building Rossini crescendos. As it happens, the state's two established summer opera destinations — the Opera Company of Middlebury and the Waitsfield-based Green Mountain Opera Festival — will both produce comic operas this season by that master of musical hilarity, Gioachino Rossini.

OCM artistic director Douglas Anderson chose the Italian composer's early romp L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) for the company's 11th season. The 21-year-old Rossini tossed this one off in about three weeks using a libretto borrowed from another composer's opera, in the process immortalizing it with his humorously fast tempos and musical surprises.

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Source: http://www.sevendaysvt.com/

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