Ildar Abdrazakov’s final performance as Mustafà, the Bey of Algiers in Gioachino Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri will be webcast worldwide from the Wiener Staatsoper on Thursday, April 30. Jesús López-Cobos conducts Jean Pierre Ponnelle’s classic production of the comic opera, which also stars Anna Bonitatibus as shipwrecked Italian heroine Isabella, Edgardo Rocha as her enslaved lover Lindoro, and Paolo Rumetz as her elderly traveling companion Taddeo.
The performance will be streamed at 7pm in the Central European time zone. It will be transmitted with a time delay in some time zones so that it may be enjoyed in prime time worldwide. Find the broadcast time that corresponds to your location here.