Rossini Opera Festival 2023 • Pesaro

Get back to Pesaro the Rossini Opera Festival, an event of great prestige and an essential destination for enthusiasts from all over the world: the 44. edition of the ROF will take place from 11 to 23 August 2023, with a dense program of events distributed between the Vitrifrigo Arena, on Experimental Theater and the Rossini Theater.

Three works scheduled, all rarities of the serious genre: Eduardo and Christina is Adelaide of Burgundy, both new productions, plus the recovery of Aurelian in Palmyra; next to these, theRossini Academy will present as usual The Journey to Reims.

They are added later two Cantatas (that for Pius IX  and that, not Rossini, in morte di Maria Malibran), five concerts and the Petite messe solennelle.

L'inauguration of the Rossini Opera Festival 2023, L'11 August at the Vitrifrigo Arena, it is up to the first modern execution of Eduardo and Christina, the 39th work in Rossini's catalogue. On the podium Jader Bignamini, leading theRai National Symphony Orchestra he was born in Chorus of the Ventidio Basso Theater, while in the cast we find Enea Scala (Carlo), Anastasia Bartoli (Cristina), Daniela Barcelona (Eduardo), Grigory Shkarupa (James) e Matteo Rome (Athlei). The show is entirely entrusted to Stephen Poda, which takes care of direction, sets, costumes, lights and choreography. The work is presented in the critical edition of the Rossini Foundation. Repeats on 14, 17 and 20 August.

As is the custom of the ROF, three 'premières' of Rossini operas follow one another on the opening days: after Edward and Christine, on August 12 always at Vitrifrigo Arena, will be the turn of Aurelian in Palmyra, with George Petrou to direct theG. Rossini Symphony Orchestra and the Theater Choir of Fortune. The show, created for ROF 2014 by Mario Martone, with scenes from Sergio Tramonti, the costumes of Ursula Patzak and the lights of Pasquale Mari, was awarded the prize of Best Rediscovered Work at the International Opera Awards 2015. The singing company includes Alexey Tatarintsev (Aurelian), Sara Blanch (Zenobia), Raffaella Lupinacci (Arsaces), Martha Pluda (Publia), Sunnyboy Dladla (oraspe), Davide Giangregorio (Licinius), Alessandro Abis (High Priest), Elcin Adil (A Shepherd). Repeats on 15, 18 and 21 August.

In the same place the following day, August 13, 2023, it will be staged Adelaide of Burgundy in a new staging signed by Arnaud Bernard, with scenes from Alessandro Camera, the costumes of Maria Carla Ricotti and the lights of Fiametta Baldiserri. Francesco Lanzillotta will be on the podiumRai National Symphony Orchestra he was born in Theater Choir Ventidius Bass, with a cast consisting of Varduhi Abrahamyan (Brass), Olga Peretyatko (Adelaide), Riccardo Fassi (Berengarius), René Barbera (Adelbert), Paola Leoci (Eurice), Valery Makarov (Iroldo), Albert Robert (Ernest). Repeats on 16, 19 and 22 August.

The 35th Rossini Academy "Alberto Zedda", starting on July 3, will close on July 17 to the Experimental Theater with the usual Concert the final. The students will be protagonists, the 16 and 18 August to the Rossini Theater, of the Travel to Reims designed by Emilio Sagi and taken from Matteo Anselmi, with Andrew Foti on the podium of the Gioachino Rossini Philharmonic. Furthermore, the young singers of the Rossini Academy will perform in the Salons Rossini, concerts held in the historic villages of the province.

The 44. Rossini Opera Festival also features a rich concert programme, with seven dates which will all take place at Experimental Theater of Pesaro.

The August 14 it starts with a new section proposal Rossinimania: there Sung in death by MF Malibran, composed in memory of the famous singer not by Rossini, but by five other of the best Italian composers of the time, Pietro Antonio Coppola, Gaetano Donizetti, Xavier merchant, John Pacini is Nicola Vaccaj. Diego Ceretta directs the Gioachino Rossini Philharmonic and the Chorus of the Teatro della Fortuna, in the cast, Lyaila Alamanova, Giuliana Gianfaldoni, Shachar Lavi, Dave Monk, Giorgi Manoshvili is Michael Mofidian.

To follow, the August 15 there Cantata in honor of the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX, with Christopher Franklin on the podium of the Gioachino Rossini Philharmonic he was born in Chorus of the Ventidio Basso Theater. In the cast, Pietro Adaini (Public Love), Marina Monzo (The hope), Michael Mofidian (The Christian Genius), Antonio Garés (Coryphaeus).

The Lyric-symphonic concerts will be two, both with theG. Rossini Symphony Orchestra: the August 17th Sesto Quatrini will direct Rosa Feola; the August 20 Marco Mencoboni will direct Maria Kataeva.

They complete the program three Concerts of Belcanto, of which they will be protagonists Teresa Iervolino (19 August), René Barbera (August 21) And Anastasia Bartoli (August 22).

The Rossini Opera Festival 2023 will close the 23 August at the Vitrifrigo Arena with the Petite solemn masses. Michele Mariotti will direct theRai National Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of the Ventidio Basso Theater, and a cast consisting of Rosa Feola, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Dmitry Korchak is Giorgi Manoshvili.