The Rossini Opera Festival has announced its 2024 season which will be held in Pesaro from August 7 to 23, 2024.

The Festival will be inaugurated at the PalaScavolini, a new theatre space reopened within the already famous PalaFestival, by “Bianca and Falliero.” Roberto Abbado will conduct the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the Coro Teatro Ventidio Basso. The cast includes Jessica Pratt (Bianca), Aya Wakizono (Falliero), Dmitry Korchak (Contareno), Giorgi Manoshvili (Capellio), Nicolò Donini (Priuli), Carmen Buendía (Costanza), Dangelo Díaz (Cancelliere), Claudio Zazzaro (Ufficiale/Usciere). Jean-Louis Grinda will direct the production.

Performance Dates: August 7-19, 2024

The next opera will be at the Teatro Rossini and will feature “L’equivoco stravagante.” Michele Spotti will lead the Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini and the Coro Teatro della Fortuna in a production conceived by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier. Maria Barakova (Ernestina), Nicola Alaimo (Gamberotto), Pietro
Adaíni (Ermanno), Carles Pachón (Buralicchio), Patricia Calvache (Rosalia) and Matteo Macchioni (Frontino) star in the production.

Performance Dates: August 8-21, 2024

The second new production, “Ermione,” will be staged at the Vitrifrigo Arena. The opera has Michele Mariotti will conduct the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the Coro Teatro Ventidio Basso. The staging by Johannes Erath will star Anastasia Bartoli in the title role, alongside Victoria Yarovaya (Andromaca), Enea Scala (Pirro), Juan Diego Flórez (Oreste), Antonio Mandrillo (Pilade), Michael Mofidian (Fenicio), Martiniana Antonie (Cleone), Paola Leguizamón (Cefisa) and Tianxuefei Sun (Attalo).

Performance Dates: August 9-20, 2024

“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” will be shown in a production by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Lorenzo Passerini conducts the production with Maria Kataeva (Rosina), Andrzej Filonczyk (Figaro), Jack Swanson (Conte d’Almaviva), Carlo Lepore (Don Bartolo), Michele Pertusi (Don Basilio), Patrizia Biccirè (Berta), William Corrò (Fiorello/Uficiale).

Performance Dates: August 10-22, 2024

The 36th edition of the Accademia Rossiniana “Alberto Zedda,” which kicked off on July 1, will close on July 15 at the Teatro Rossini with the usual Final Concert. The students, conducted by Davide Levi, will be the protagonists, on August 16 and 19 at the PalaScavolini, of “Il viaggio a Reims” conceived by Emilio
Sagi and taken over by Matteo Anselmi. The singers of the Accademia Rossiniana will also perform in the Salons Rossini.

Concerts 

The Messa di Ravenna, performed in the edition by Ferdinando Sulla, will feature soloists Jorge Juan Morata, Tianxuefei Sun, and Alejandro Baliñas.

Performance Date: August 11, 2024

The Cantata “Il vero omaggio” will be conducted by Giulio Cilona and will feature a cast that includes Sara Blanch, Victoria Yarovaya, Ruzil Gatin, and Alejandro Baliñas.

Performance Date: August 15, 2024

Alessandro Cadario will conduct Gregory Kunde and Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini.

Performance Date: August 18, 2024

Jacopo Brusa will conduct Giorgio Caoduro and the Orchestra Sinfonica G.. Rossini.

Performance Date: August 20, 2024

Delphine Constantin-Reznik (harp) and Roman Reznik (bassoon) will be the stars of Rossinimania.

Performance Date: August 22, 2024

The season closes at the PalaScavolini with a concert performance of “Il viaggio a Reims.” Diego Matheuz will conduct the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the Choir of the Teatro Ventidio Basso, as well as a cast consisting of Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Corinna), Maria Barakova (Marchesa Melibea), Sara Blanch (Countess of Folleville), Karine Deshayes (Madama Cortese), Jack Swanson (Cavalier Belfiore), Dmitry Korchak (Count of Libenskof), Mihael Mofidian (Lord Sidney), Erwin Schrott (Don Profondo), Nicola Alaimo (Baron of Trombonok), Vito Priante (Don Alvaro), Alejandro Baliñas (Don Prudenzio), Tianxuefei Sun (Don Luigino), Paola Leguizamón (Delia), Martiniana Antonie (Maddalena), Vittoriana De Amicis (Moestina), Nicolò Donini (Antonio), Jorge Juan Morata (Zefirino/Gelsomino).

Performance Date: August 23, 2024

There will be a number of solo concerts Eleonora Buratto (August 12), Pietro Spagnoli (August 13), Ramón Vargas (August 14), Sara Blanch (August 14), and Daniela Barcellona (August 21).