Il turco in Italia Il turco in Italia Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (with the same title) by the German composer in 1788. An opera buffa, it was influenced by Mozart's "Così fan tutte", which was performed at the same theatre shortly before Rossini's work. The strangely harmonized overture, though infrequently recorded, is one of the best examples of Rossini's characteristic style. An unusually long introduction displays an extended, melancholy
Marta Belen locations around the United States, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain. She sang for the Tucson Opera (now the Arizona Opera) and the San Francisco Opera. She sang the principal soprano role for "La Traviata", "Madame Butterfly", and "La Boheme", as well as performing in "La Sonnambula", "Daughter of the Regiment" (La fille du régiment), "The Magic Flute", and "The Abduction from the Seraglio". In the late 1970s she recorded Rachmaninoff's art songs with Paula Fan accompanying. Marta married Roger Irwin in 1962. They later divorced in 1976. She married David Hutchinson in 1983. In 1966 she began studying Buddhism, and lived