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L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI.(Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast)
BROADCAST OF FEBRUARY 17,2001
SPONSORED BY TEXACO OVER THE TEXACO-METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK, 1:30 P.M.
L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI
THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Elvira soprano, JOYCE GUYER Zulma mezzo, MARIA ZIFCHAK Haly baritone, MARIUSZ KWIECIEN Mustafa bass, SAMUEL RAMEY Lindoro tenor, PAUL AUSTIN KELLY Isabella mezzo, JENNIFER LARMORE Taddeo bar., ALESSANDRO CORBELLI Conducted by BRUNO CAMPANELLA Production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Set and costume designer: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Associate designer: David Reppa Stage director: Grischa Asagaroff Chorus master: Raymond Hughes Musical preparation: Donna Racik, Robert Morrison, Katherine Chu, Christopher Larkin Assistant stage directors: Paul Mills, Sharon Thomas Harpsichord continuo: Robert Morrison Prompter: Donna Racik Production a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Brush THE SCENES Timings (ET) (Algiers, early 19th c.) ACT I 1:30-2:43 Sc. 1 The beys harem Sc. 2 Room in the palace Sc. 3 Seacoast Sc. 4 Palace Sc. 5 Mustafa's chambers in the palace ACT II 3:09-4:22 Sc. 1 Palace Sc. 2 Isabella's apartments in the palace Sc. 3 Elsewhere in the palace Sc. 4 Another room Sc. 5 Outside the palace Announcer: Peter Allen Audio director: Jay David Saks INTERMISSION FEATURES Producer: Michael Bronson Timings Texaco's Opera Quiz(*) 2:43-3:09 Thor Eckert Jr. questions George Jellinek, Francis Rizzo, Susan Webb
(*) Send quiz questions to Texaco's Opera Quiz, F.D.R. Station, P.O. Box 805, N.Y.C. 10150, or via Texaco's homepage at www.texaco.com.
THE STORY
ACT I. At the seaside palace of the Bey Mustafa, his wife, Elvira, complains that her husband no longer loves her; her attendants reply there is nothing she can do. Mustafa bursts in. Asserting that he will not let women get the better of him, he sends Elvira away when she complains. Mustafa says he has tired of his wife and will give her to Lindoro, a young Italian at the court, to marry. Then he orders Haly (Ali), a pirate, to get him an Italian woman -- someone more interesting than the girls in his harem, who bore him. Lindoro longs for his own sweetheart, Isabella, whom he lost when pirates captured him. Mustafa tells him he can have Elvira, insisting she possesses every virtue that Lindoro, in his attempt to escape Mustafa's connubial trap, has listed.
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