L'Italiana in Algeri

Dramma giocoso in due atti

• Composer: Giochino Rossini
• Librettist: Angelo Agnelli
• First performance: Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, 22 May, 1813
• Synopsis:
  • Metropolitan Opera
• Libretto
• Background: Una Dama Milanese Rapita dai Corsari
  The story of Antonietta Frapolli-Suini, from Luci e penombre di Lombardia by Nino Bazzetta de Vemeniani

Dramatis Personæ

Mustafà, Bey of Algiers (bass)

Elvira, his wife (soprano)

Zulma, Elvira's slave and confidante (mezzo-soprano)

Haly, captain of the Algerian corsairs (bass)

Lindoro, a young Italian, Mustafà's favorite slave (tenor)

Isabella, an Italian lady (contralto)

Taddeo, her companion (comic bass)

Eunuchs of the seraglio, Algerian corsairs, Italian slaves, ``pappataci'', women of the harem, European slaves, sailors

Setting:Algiers.