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Rossini's brilliantly comic 19th-century opera is revitalized with this lush 2006 production conducted by Riccardo Frizza in Aix-en-Provence, France. L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI, notable for its bold mixture of opera seria (dramatic) and opera buffa (comedic) styles, is about a royal Bey who gets more than he bargained for when he demands to take feisty Isabella, the Italian girl of the title, as a lover.... See Full Description
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