L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI

The 2026 Opera and Ballet Season features Gioachino Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri on the programme, returning to the stage in Brescia after fourteen years with a contemporary setting that will not aim for realism but rather for an unstable backdrop against which the action – as is well known – is set: the abduction of a Milanese lady by pirates, her subsequent transfer to an Algerian harem and, finally, her return home.

L’italiana in Algeri
Dramma giocoso in two acts
Libretto by Angelo Anelli
Music by Gioachino Rossini

Conductor Alessandro Palumbo
Director Fabio Cherstich
Set design Nicolas Bovey
Costumes Arthur Arbesser
Lighting by Alessandro Pasqualini

Chorus Master Pilar Bravo
Coro OperaLombardia 

Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali

New production
Co-production by Teatri di OperaLombardia, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Teatri Piacenza, Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena, Fondazione Ravenna Manifestazioni/Teatro Alighieri, Fondazione Haydn di Trento and Bolzano