We enjoyed the opera thoroughly last evening. First sipping wine and dining on cheese at Patina. Then slipping into balcony seats for Rossini's, Il Turco in Italia. James Conlon conducted the zany comedy, which has been described as The Barber of Seville meets Così fan tutte. In a nutshell, Fiorilla is a woman determined to rid herself of the two men in her life – her exasperated husband and her tedious admirer in favor of a more exotic suitor, a pompously beguiling pasha Selim. Of course there are all sorts of amorous adventures with tongue-tangling patter arias and blazing coloratura. Only through Sunday, March 13th at LA Opera.
