(Photo: Amati Bacciardi / ROF 2025) Soirées musicales After the triumph of his last opera, “Guillaume Tell,” Gioachino Rossini decided to abandon theatrical composition and retire to his home in Paris to recover from nervous exhaustion. Even so, he never stopped writing music: he composed for himself, for Olympe Pélissier–whom he married in 1846 after the death of Isabella Colbran–and {…}
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 {…}
The Rossini Opera Festival announced the three operas for the 2020 Festival during the press conference presenting this year’s festival. The 2020 season will showcase three productions, including “Moïse et Pharaon” directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi and conducted by Daniele Rustioni. The second opera that will be showcased will be “Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra” directed by David Livermore. Evelino Pidò will {…}
