Pesaro

Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe opens the ROF 2026 with musical splendour under siege from its own staging

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ItalyItaly Rossini Opera Festival 2026 – Rossini, Le siège de Conrinthe: Soloists, Coro del Teatro Ventidio basso (choir leader: Pasquale Veleno), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Auditorium Scavolini, Pesaro, 11.8.2026. (AB)

Visalisa Berzhanskaya (Pamyra) in Rossini’s Le siège de Conrinthe

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An unmitigated triumph: Bieto’s and Sagripanti’s Zelmira at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro

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ItalyItaly Rossini Opera Festival 2025 [1] – Rossini, Zelmira: Soloists, Coro del Teatro Ventidio basso (choir leader: Pasquale Veleno), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Giacomo Sagripanti (conductor). Auditorium Scavolini, Pesaro, 10.8.2024. (AB)

Anastasia Bartoli (Zelmira), Edoardo Maria D’Angelo (Zelmira’s son) and Marina Viotti (Emma) in Zelmira

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Rossini’s Ermione receives a visually overwhelming production in Pesaro

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ItalyItaly Rossini Opera Festival 2024 [2] – Rossini, Ermione: Soloists, Coro del teatro ventidio basso, Orchestra sinfonica nazionale della RAI / Michele Mariotti (conductor). Vitrifrigo Arena, Pesaro, 9.8.2024. (AB)

Anastasia Bartoli (Ermione) and  Juan Diego Flórez (Oreste) © Amati Biaccardi

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Exceptional music making in a rather static production of Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro

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ItalyItaly Rossini Opera Festival 2024 [1] – Rossini, Bianca e Falliero: Soloists, Coro del teatro ventidio basso, Orchestra sinfonica nazionale della RAI, Roberto Abbado (conductor). Auditorium Scavolini, Pesaro, 7.8.2024. (AB)

Rossini Opera Festival 2024’s Bianca e Falliero

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Vocal Disasters Mar the ROF’s La donna del lago

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ItalyItaly ROF 3 – Rossini: La donna del lago:  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Comunale of Bologna/Michele Mariotti (conductor). New production with Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and dedicated to the memory of Gae Aulenti. Adriatic Arena, Pesaro, 11.8.2016. (JB)

Photo credit: studio Amati Bacciardi.
La donna del lago (c) Amati Bacciardi

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The Unhappy Deception at the Rossini Opera Festival

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ItalyItaly Rossini Opera Festival (3):  L’Inganno Felice: Orchestra Sinfonica G Rossini, Conductor, Denis Vlasenko.  Stage Director, Graham Vick (his 1994 staging) with sets and costumes of Richard Hudson and Projections of Matthew Richardson.  Teatro Rossini, Pesaro 15.8.2015 (JB)

Rossini Festival 3
L’Inganno Felice at the Rossini Opera Festival
c Giacomo Mariotti

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