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Michele Spotti to Lead Rossini Opera Festival’s ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’

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Michele Spotti is set to return to the Rossini Opera Festival for the fourth year in a row. The conductor will lead the company’s autumn production of Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” Performances of the iconic Rossini comedy are scheduled for Nov. 25, 27, and 29 and will star Juan Francisco Gatell, Carlo Lepore, Aya Wakizono, Iurii Samoilov, Michele Pertusi, Elena {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival 2020 Review: La Cambiale di Matrimonio

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(Photo: Studio Amati Bacciardi) Despite the restrictions in place caused by the COVID pandemic, the Rossini Opera Festival has managed to put together a reduced festival of outdoor concerts and recitals along with a fully-staged performance of the maestro’s one-act farsa “La Cambiale di Matrimonio” at the Teatro Rossini. The opera, written in 1810 for the San Moisè in Venice {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival to Stream ‘La Cambiale di Matrimonio’

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ItaliaFestival.tv is livestreaming Rossini’s “La Cambiale di Matrimonio” on August 8 from the Rossini Opera Festival. The performance, scheduled for 8:30 pm Italian time, will showcase the rarely performed one-act Rossini opera starring Carlo Lepore, Dilyara Idrisova, Davide Giusti, Iurii Samoilov, Alexandr Utkin, and Martiniana Antonie. Dmitry Korchak will make his conducting debut in a production by Laurence Dale. The {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival Announces Autumn 2020 Season

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The Rossini Opera Festival has announced a new autumn section in 2020. The festival in Pesaro, Italy revealed that between Nov. 1 and 29, it will present a number of concerts and productions. The program will include the Concluding Concert of the Accademia Rossiniana “Alberto Zedda,” which was postponed to October instead of the usual month of July. The section {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival Announces 2021 Repertory

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The Rossini Opera Festival has announced plans for the 2021 season. In a press statement superintendent, Ernesto Palacio said that the operas originally planned for the 2020 season will be moved to the 2021 edition. The season, which will be held between August 9 and 21, will showcase three new productions including “Moïse et Pharaon” with Giacomo Sagripanti conducting and {…}

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Rossini Opera Festival Announces New 2020 Program Including Olga Peretyatko & Juan Diego Flórez

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The Rossini Opera Festival has announced it will take place from August 8 to August 20 with a readjusted program. The festival announced that it will still stage a new production of “La cambiale di matrimonio” at the Teatro Rossini on August 8, 11, 13, 17, and 20. To ensure social distancing the orchestra will be located in the stalls {…}

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The Rossini Opera Festival Launches Daily Live Streams From its Opera Archives

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In light of the quarantines and lockdowns, the Rossini Opera Festival will stream some of its most recent productions throughout the whole month of March. The Festival announced that it has decided “to embark in an ambitious enterprise called Soirées musicales in collaboration with Unitel Classica and Ricordi.” The festival will stream a cycle of operas from the last decade {…}

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Olga Peretyatko, Karin Deshayes, & Erwin Schrott Lead 2020 Rossini Opera Festival

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The 41st Rossini Opera Festival has announced the full casting for its 2020 Festival. As previously announced there will be three operas presented this year. The 2020 season will showcase three productions, including “Moïse et Pharaon” directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi and conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti. The cast will include Roberto Tagliavini, Erwin Schrott, Olga Peretyatko, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Monica Bacelli, {…}