Maometto secondo

Maometto secondo

174 mins | Music | Nov. 1, 2005

Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle. Set in the 1470s during a time of war between the Turks and Venetians, the work was commissioned by the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Della Valle based his libretto on his earlier play Anna Erizo. The name of the title character, Maometto II, refers to the real-life Ottoman Sultan and conqueror of Constantinople Mehmed II, who lived from 1432 to 1481.

Maometto secondo

174 mins | Music | Nov. 1, 2005

Maometto secondo
Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle. Set in the 1470s during a time of war between the Turks and Venetians, the work was commissioned by the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Della Valle based his libretto on his earlier play Anna Erizo. The name of the title character, Maometto II, refers to the real-life Ottoman Sultan and conqueror of Constantinople Mehmed II, who lived from 1432 to 1481.
Producers Teatro la Fenice
Original title Maometto secondo
Directors Pier Luigi Pizzi, Tiziano Mancini
Writers Cesare della Valle

Cast

Lorenzo Regazzo

as Maometto secondo

Federico Lepre

as Selimo

Maxim Mironov

as Paolo Erisso

Nicola Marchesini

as Condulmiero