Rossini Opera Festival 2023
Rossini Opera Festival 2023
The ROF 2023, which will be held from the 11th to the 23rd August, the highlight of the programme will be the first modern performance of the critical edition of Eduardo e Cristina, conducted by Jader Bignamini and staged by Stefano Poda. This will be accompanied by another new production, Adelaide di Borgogna, conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta and staged by Arnaud Bernard, as well as a revival of Aureliano in Palmira, conducted by George Petrou and staged by Mario Martone, a production from the ROF 2014 that was awarded the prize for Best Rediscovered Work by the International Opera Awards. Among the concerts, the Petite messe solennelle conducted by Michele Mariotti.
Rossini Opera Festival is the main event of the year with the participation of world classical music stars.
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Detailed information about the 2023 Festival will be added later. Please read about the previous "Rossini Opera Festival 2022":
The 43rd ROF was held from August 9th to 21st, and featured two new productions (Le Comte Ory and Otello), the revival of La gazzetta and the aforementioned Il viaggio a Reims, three opera-symphonic concerts, two Belcanto Concerts, a Concert from the Balcony of Casa Rossini, the return of Rossinimania with the musical entertainment Il sogno dell'orso, conceived by Sergio Ragni, and the celebratory Gala Tra rondò e tournedos, for Pier Luigi Pizzi's 40th anniversary at the ROF.
The Festival was opened on Tuesday 9th August at 8.00 p.m. at the Vitrifrigo Arena with a new production of Le Comte Ory with Diego Matheuz conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the Chorus of the Teatro Ventidio Basso. The production, scenery and costumes are by Hugo De Ana, the lighting by Valerio Alfieri. The opera is a co-production with the Teatro Comunale, Bologna. The cast features Juan Diego Flórez, Julie Fuchs, Nahuel Di Pierro, Maria Kataeva, Andrzej Filonczyk, Monica Bacelli and Anna-Doris Capitelli. Three repeats was given on the 12th, 16th and 19th August.
The second offering on the programme of the 43rd edition of the Rossini Opera Festival was La gazzetta, the first performance of which was held on Wednesday 10th August at the Teatro Rossini. The opera was conducted by Carlo Rizzi, with the Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini and the Chorus of the Teatro della Fortuna. The production was devised by Marco Carniti, with scenery by Manuela Gasperoni, costumes by Maria Filippi and lighting by Fabio Rossi. The production was warmly received at the ROF 2015. The cast of singers consisted of Carlo Lepore, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Pietro Adaini, Giorgio Caoduro, Martiniana Antonie, Alejandro Baliñas, Andrea Niño and Pablo Gálvez. There was repeat performances on the 13th, 15th and 18th August.
The third opera on the bill of the 43rd edition of the Rossini Opera Festival is Otello, a new production scheduled for Thursday 11th August at 8.00 p.m. at the Vitrifrigo Arena, conducted by Yves Abel, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the Chorus of the Teatro Ventidio Basso. The opera is staged by Rosetta Cucchi, with scenery by Tiziano Santi, costumes by Ursula Patzak and lighting by Daniele Naldi. The singers are Enea Scala, Eleonora Buratto, Dmitry Korchak, Antonino Siragusa, Evgeny Stavinsky, Adriana Di Paola, Julian Henao Gonzales and Antonio Garés. Repeat performances was on 14th, 17th and 20th August.
Il viaggio a Reims, the scenic cantata which has by now become a symbol of the Rossini Opera Festival, was back again and was performed on the 13th and 15th August at 11.00 a.m. at the Teatro Rossini. As from 2001 the ROF, as part of the Festival Giovane (Young People’s Festival), offers Il viaggio as performed by young singers who have studied at the Accademia Rossiniana “Alberto Zedda”.
The ROF 2022 came to an end on Sunday 21st August at 8.30 p.m. at the Vitrifrigo Arena, with Tra Rondò e Tournedos, a Gala performance celebrating Pier Luigi Pizzi’s 40 years at the ROF. During the course of the evening, Pier Luigi Pizzi was designated an Honorary Citizen of the town of Pesaro.
About the Rossini Opera Festival
Rossini Opera Festival is one of the most elite summer Italian festivals. The festival annually attracts fans to Pesaro Rossini's works from around the world. It has been held since 1980 on the birthplace of Rossini, in the small resort town of Pesaro on the Adriatic coast.
The festival is usually held in August and lasts 2–3 weeks.
The program of the Rossini Opera Festival, as a rule, includes 3 opera performances, each of which is repeated alternating 3-4 times, which is convenient for those who do not attend the whole festival, but only come for a few days.
The festival program is constantly replenished with rarely performed productions of Rossini's works, which are nowhere practically, except at the festival in Pesaro hear.
In addition, the festival hosts vocal evenings (concerti di belcanto). In recent years, masterpieces of sacred music such as “Little solemn mass”, “Stabat Mater”, “Messa di Gloria”.
Since its inception, the artistic direction of the Festival has been carried out by Alberto Dzedda, a worldwide recognized specialist in Rossini. Sometimes the maestro Alberto Dzedda himself stands behind the orchestra console.
The main attraction of the city is the house in which Gioacchino Rossini was born on February 29, 1792. Now there is a museum dedicated to life and work composer.
The first festival venues in Pesaro were the small cozy Rossini Theater (Teatro Rossini with 850 seats) and the Conservatorio di musica G. Rossini ”(Auditorium Pedrotti for 500 seats). Later they were joined by the Palafestival sports complex (1,500 seats), specially converted for conducting opera performances. The Palafestival complex has excellent acoustics.
Since 2006, festival performances have also been held in conjunction with the romantic name Adriatic Arena. In recent years, Teatro Rossini and Adriatic Arena are the main theater venues, and on the stage of Auditorium Pedrotti there are solo concerts.
The festival traditionally presents new vocalists and conductors.
There has been a summer school at the festival for many years, the Accademia Rossiniana, in which Alberto Dzedda himself and the festival superintendent Gianfranco Mariotti, a great connoisseur of Rossini's art, take part. From 2001 to The results of the final concert, in which Alberto Dzedda's school participates, form a lineup of singers for the performance of Rossini's opera Journey to Reims.
Over the past 3 decades of its existence, such famous singers as: Moncerat Caballe, Cecilia Gasdia, performed at the Rossiniev Festival Marilyn Horn, Michele Pertuzi, Joyce Di Donato, Darina Such, June Anderson and Eva Podles, Gregory Kunde, Luciano Pavarotti, Patricia Ciofi, Juan Diego Flores, Cecilia Bartoli and others. By the way, Juan Diego Flores came to world fame in 1996 in Pesaro, when the singer replaced the ill performer of the main part in Rossini's opera Matilda di Shabran.
At the Rossini Opera Festival, in addition to Alberto Dzedda, in different years they conducted: Gianandrea Gavazzeni (maestro of the very first festival play “The Thief-Thief” in 1980), Claudio Abbado, Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Chai, Roberto Abbado, Guberstavo, Gubersto Renato Palumbo, Claudio Chimone, Gabriele Ferro, Donato Renzetti, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Vladimir Yurovsky, Denis Vlasenko.
Over the past few years, the Bologna Opera Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Choir have become regular participants in the Rossiniev Festival.
The Rossini Opera Festival, according to the overall musical rating, takes almost the first place among all Italian festivals held in the summer.
