
The Italian Girl in Algiers 2018
Never Underestimate Her…
Cool and confident, the “Italian Girl” Isabella dons her leather flight helmet and pilots her biplane across the Mediterranean to rescue her fiancé while fending off would-be lovers with madcap machinations worthy of the Marx Brothers.
Synopsis
Act I
Elvira complains to Zulma that her husband, Mustafà, is no longer in love with her. Mustafà rejects Elvira’s attempts to rekindle his ardor. He orders Haly, his henchman, to have Elvira married off to Lindoro, a recently captured slave, and to find a lusty young Italian woman to be his new wife.
Lindoro pines for Isabella, whom he has not seen for many months. Mustafà offers him a wife who combines beauty, wealth, and kindness, but will not divulge her name.
Searching for Lindoro, Isabella and her traveling companion Taddeo are forced by a storm to seek refuge in Algiers. They are captured by Mustafà’s men. Haly discovers that Isabella is a genuine Italian woman and predicts that she will become the new star of the harem, much to Taddeo’s jealousy.
Lindoro agrees to marry Elvira, in exchange for his freedom and passage to Italy, just as Haly announces the arrival of the Italian girl and her “uncle” Taddeo. Mustafà falls immediately in love with Isabella and orders that the inconvenient uncle be impaled on the stake forthwith. Persuaded by Isabella’s charms, Mustafà agrees to make Lindoro her personal slave and to commute Taddeo’s execution.
Artists

Daniela Mack
Mezzo-soprano
Isabella

Jack Swanson
Tenor
Lindoro

Scott Conner
Bass
Mustafà

Patrick Carfizzi
Bass-Baritone
Taddeo

Suzanne Hendrix
Mezzo-soprano
Zulma

Craig Verm
Baritone
Haly

Stacey Geyer
Soprano
Elvira

Corrado Rovaris
Conductor

Shawna Lucey
Director

Robert Innes Hopkins
Scenic Designer

David C. Woolard
Costume Designer

Duane Schuler
Lighting Designer

Susanne Sheston
Chorus Director

Edward Hastings
Director
Original Production