(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 {…}
(Photo: Alciro Theodoro Da Silva) The headline event at this year’s Göttingen Händel Festival was the world premiere of “Sarrasine,” a recently constructed opera by the librettist Laurence Dale and the conductor George Petrou, based on the novella of the same name by H. Balzac using music composed by Händel. A New Pasticcio Using Händel’s Rejected Music The project originated {…}
(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 {…}
