We can only admire the way that Shakespeare brushes off pandemic shutdowns like crumbs from his doublet. First, a couple of bubonic plagues; then, a round of Covid.
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Il turco in Italia, Glyndebourne review – who knew 1950s neorealism could be such fun?
Trust, teamwork and comic invention combine to make a winner
by Sebastian ScotneyMonday, 24 May 2021
The new Glyndebourne production of Rossini s
Il turco in Italia has a truly winning smile on its face and a spring and a dance in its musical step. It is brimful of fun and good ideas, conveying the sense that a lot of joy has been had in its making.
4/5
This new production of Rossini’s zany classic makes hay with the obviousness of the caricatures on which it’s built
24 May 2021 • 3:14pm You can rely on Rossini to defy right-on pieties : the new Glyndebourne production of Il turnco in Italia
Credit: Glyndebourne
Good old Rossini. You can always rely on him to offend the right-on pieties of the age with some shocking stereotypes. The comedy Il turco in Italia, composed when Rossini was a stripling of 22, has plenty. Women are flighty, old men are simpletons, gypsies are untrustworthy, Turks are randy (especially for other men’s wives), Italians ditto.