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Production Gallery: Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser at the Royal Opera House

Lavish images from the directorial duo's Covent Garden productions

by Jasper ReesSaturday, 3 April 2010

Adultery alla Rossini: Il turco in Italia stars Ildebrando D'Arcangelo as Selim and Aleksandra Kurzak as Fiorilla

As co-directors of opera, Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser's fidelity to each other's artistic vision is one thing. Their devotion to Rossini is also relatively unusual. Their loyalty to and faith in their designers is almost as deep. In this ravishing set of photographs, memorialising five of their productions at the Royal Opera House, the set designs are all by Christian Fenouillat, costume designs are by Agostino Cavalca and lighting is by Christophe Forey. Click on the images to view them. Read theartsdesk Q&A with Caurier and Leiser.

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Madama Butterfly Marco Berti as Pinkerton and Cristina Gallardo-Domas © Bill Cooper 2003
Madama Butterfly Liping Zhang as Cio-Cio San © Bill Cooper 2007
La Cenerentola Magdalena Kožená as Angelina and Lorenzo Regazzo as Alidoro © Johan Persson 2007
La Cenerentola Magdalena Kožená as Angelina © Johan Persson 2007
Hänsel und Gretel Angelika Kirchschlager as Hänsel and Diana Damrau as Gretel © Bill Cooper 2008
Hänsel und Gretel Angelika Kirchschlager as Hänsel, Diana Damrau as Gretel and Anja Silja as Witch © Bill Cooper 2008
Il barbiere di Siviglia Jennifer Rhys-Davies as Berta, Alessandro Corbelli as Doctor Bartolo, Christopher Lackner as Officer, Ferruccio Furlanetto as Don Basilio, Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva, Pietro Spagnoli as Figaro and Joyce DiDonato as Rosina © Bill Cooper 2009
Il barbiere di Siviglia Changhan Lim as Fiorello, Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva and the Royal Opera Chorus as Musicians © Bill Cooper 2009
Il turco in Italia Aleksandra Kurzak as Fiorilla, Alessandro Corbelli as Don Geronio and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo as Selim © The Royal Opera/Clive Barda 2010
Il turco in Italia Aleksandra Kurzak as Fiorilla and the Royal Opera Chorus © The Royal Opera/Clive Barda 2010

Performances of Il turco in Italia at the Royal Opera House are on 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16 and 19 April
It will be broadcast by BBC radio 3 on Saturday 15 May at 6pm
Check out what's on at the Royal Opera in 2010-11

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