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Sky Classica to Broadcast Rossini Opera Festival’s ‘Le Siège de Corinthe’

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(Credits: Rossini Opera Festival) On Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 9:15 p.m., Sky Classica is set to present the broadcast premiere of “Le Siège de Corinthe.” The new production comes from the 2026 Rossini Opera Festival and was conducted by Carlo Rizzi. The cast included Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Pamyra), Adrian Sâmpetrean (Mahomet II), Maxim Mironov (Néoclès), Matteo Roma (Cléomène), Simón Orfila (Hièros), {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival Shows Audience Growth in 2026

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Following the conclusion of the Rossini Opera Festival’s 2026 edition, the company released its final results showcasing a growth in audience. The company said that after 42 events, including performances and talks, it recorded 16,350 attendees compared with 15,559 in 2025. Additionally it said that the box-office amounted to €808,000 and that visitor came from all over the world including {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Rossini Opera Festival 2026 Review: Il viaggio a Reims

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(Photo: Rossini Opera Festival) “The Journey to Reims” occupies a singular place in Gioachino Rossini’s catalogue today: few could have imagined that a work conceived as a circumstantial celebration of the coronation of Charles X would, two centuries later, become one of the most emblematic titles of the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) in Pesaro and a veritable testing ground for {…}

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Cast Change: Dave Monaco Takes Over Rossini Opera Festival’s Stabar Mater

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The Rossini Opera Festival has announced a cast change for the “Stabat” Mater on August 23, 2026. The company said that Dave Monaco will replace Dmitry Korchak, who has canceled for personal reasons. This season at the Rossini Opera Festival, Monaco has already performed a solo recital and starred in the production of “L’occasione fa il ladro,”for which OperaWire said, {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival 2026 Review: Matteo Mancini & Giuseppe Toia in Recital

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(Photo: Rossini Opera Festival) As part of the recitals that traditionally accompany the Rossini Opera Festival’s program, a recital was held featuring baritones Matteo Mancini and Giuseppe Toia, with Michele D’Elia at the piano. Mancini and Toia appeared relaxed from the very beginning, comfortable with a repertoire they know and perform regularly. The program allowed them to explore different facets {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival 2026 Review: Rossinimania ‘Rossini à Paris’

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(Photo: Rossini Opera Festival) During the first decades of the nineteenth century, demand for music was extremely strong, but there was no way of listening again, through any kind of recording medium, to what audiences had so greatly enjoyed in the theater or concert halls. This gave rise to an entire repertoire of arrangements and transcriptions of larger-scale works, reduced {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival 2026 Review: L’occasione fa il ladro

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(Photo: Rossini Opera Festival) Written in just fifteen days in 1812 for Venice’s Teatro San Moisè, this one-act burletta per musica belongs to the extraordinary period of the composer’s youth when, at just 20 years old, Rossini seemed capable of turning even the most seemingly minor plot into a theatrical mechanism of breathtaking precision, sustained by music of the highest {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival 2026 Review: Le siège de Corinthe

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(Credits: Rossini Opera Festival ©) Gioachino Rossini’s “Le siège de Corinthe” occupies a fundamental place both in the evolution of the composer born in Pesaro and in the history of the modern revival of his works. Premiered at the Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique in Paris on October 9, 1826, this tragédie lyrique represents Rossini’s first major foray into {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival 2026: La scala di seta

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This title occupies a singular place within Gioachino Rossini’s early output. Composed in 1812 for Venice’s Teatro San Moisè, it belongs to the small group of one-act farces that the young composer, just 20 years old, wrote during one of the most frenetic periods of his career. It follows the tradition of the eighteenth-century opera buffa: a romantic entanglement built {…}