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Opera

Il turco in Italia, Royal Opera House, reviewed: bring sunglasses

Plus: a Classical Opera revival of J.C. Bach’s Adriano in Siria that’s entertaining, absorbing and much more than a scholar’s pet

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

Il turco in Italia

Royal Opera House, in rep until 27 April

Adriano in Siria

Royal College of Music

Big slats of orange, burning yellows, an Adriatic in electric blue: I wish I’d bought my sunglasses to the Royal Opera’s latest revival of Il turco in Italia. Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s production of Rossini’s opera buffo first burst on to the Covent Garden stage in 2005, and its shrieking colours haven’t dimmed with the years.

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