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Anastasia Bartoli a regal Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei, 09 August 2024

The ROF presents a new production of Ermione, a title not often performed, with a star-studded cast including divo Juan Diego Flórez.

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Pesaro

09 Aug 2024

Anastasia Bartoli a regal Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei

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Pesaro

The Rossini Opera Festival comes home! Bianca e Falliero at the Palafestival

By Laura Servidei, 07 August 2024

Jessica Pratt leads a strong cast in a beautiful performance of one of Rossini’s unjustly forgotten masterpieces, under the spectacular baton of Roberto Abbado, despite an unremarkable new production by Jean-Louis Grinda.

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Pesaro

07 Aug 2024

The Rossini Opera Festival comes home! Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei

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Pesaro

Adelaide di Borgogna returns to the Rossini Opera Festival in a new, meta-theatrical production

By Laura Servidei, 13 August 2023

The ROF presents a new, cheeky production of Adelaide, by Arnaud Bernard, based on a unoriginal but very well executed “meta-theatrical” take, with an exemplary cast.

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Pesaro

13 Aug 2023

Adelaide di Borgogna returns to the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei

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Pesaro

Eduardo e Cristina: a rarity opens the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with great success

By Laura Servidei, 11 August 2023

A strong cast and an inspiring production deliver the latest opera staged at the Rossini Opera Festival.

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Pesaro

11 Aug 2023

Eduardo e Cristina: a rarity opens the Rossini Festival

By Laura Servidei

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Aix-en-Provence

Prime cuts: Fabio Luisi conducts Wagner in Aix

By Mark Pullinger, 08 April 2023

The Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai impresses in “bleeding chunks” from Wagner operas at the Festival de Pâques d'Aix-en-Provence.

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Aix-en-Provence

08 Apr 2023

Prime cuts: Fabio Luisi conducts Wagner in Aix

By Mark Pullinger

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Parma

Reverence and beauty in Michele Mariotti’s Verdi Requiem in Parma

By Mark Pullinger, 23 September 2022

A Verdi Festival account where the orchestral detail registers with true distinction and the singing impresses.

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Parma

23 Sep 2022

Reverence and beauty in Mariotti’s Verdi Requiem in Parma

By Mark Pullinger

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Pesaro

The other Otello: Rosetta Cucchi delivers a powerful staging in Pesaro

By Mark Pullinger, 11 August 2022

Rossini's Otello is rarely performed, mainly due to its three demanding tenor roles, but the Rossini Opera Festival delivers a knockout, both vocally and emotionally.

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Pesaro

11 Aug 2022

The other Otello: Rosetta Cucchi delivers a powerful staging in Pesaro

By Mark Pullinger

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Pesaro

Blue Nun Flórez prevails over de Ana’s gaudy garden of earthly delights

By Mark Pullinger, 09 August 2022

Opening the 2022 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Hugo de Ana's new production plunges Le Comte Ory into Hieronymus Bosch’s lusty triptych.

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Pesaro

09 Aug 2022

Blue Nun Flórez prevails over de Ana’s garden of earthly delights

By Mark Pullinger

Pesaro

Tudor queen in the House of Windsor: Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei, 08 August 2021

A new production by Davide Livermore transforms Elizabeth I into Elizabeth II. Evelino Pidò leads a solid cast in one of the earliest opera seria by Gioachino Rossini.

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Pesaro

08 Aug 2021

Tudor queen in the House of Windsor: Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra

By Laura Servidei

Pesaro

Moïse et Pharaon in Pesaro: the Rossini Opera Festival is back!

By Laura Servidei, 06 August 2021

A new production by Pier Luigi Pizzi opens the festival in Pesaro with Giacomo Sagripanti in the pit leading a strong cast and powerful chorus.

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Pesaro

06 Aug 2021

Moïse et Pharaon in Pesaro: the Rossini Opera Festival is back!

By Laura Servidei

Prague

Never reaching far below the surface: anemic opening at Dvořák's Prague

By Frank Kuznik, 08 September 2019

For the composer's birthday, a mismatch of performers and repertoire.

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Prague

08 Sep 2019

An anemic opening at Dvořák's Prague

By Frank Kuznik

Pesaro

The Queen is back: Semiramide in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei, 14 August 2019

Michele Mariotti triumphs in Rossini’s masterpiece with a good cast led by Salome Jicia and a new production, only partially successful.

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Pesaro

14 Aug 2019

The Queen is back: Semiramide in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei

Pesaro

Puns, dirty jokes and bizarre misunderstandings: L’equivoco stravagante at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei, 13 August 2019

A new, successful production by Leiser and Caurier supports a great cast of Rossini specialists, with Teresa Iervolino, Paolo Bordogna and Davide Luciano in the lead roles.

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Pesaro

13 Aug 2019

Puns, dirty jokes and bizarre misunderstandings

By Laura Servidei

Pesaro

Pier Luigi Pizzi’s Barbiere triumphs in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei, 16 August 2018

The Rossini Opera Festival stages a new production of the most famous of Rossini’s masterpieces to celebrate the composer in the 150th anniversary of his death.

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Pesaro

16 Aug 2018

Pier Luigi Pizzi’s Barbiere triumphs in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei

Pesaro

Ricciardo e Zoraide: Orientalism at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei, 14 August 2018

A stellar cast and a new, old-fashioned production bring back Ricciardo e Zoraide to Pesaro after 22 years.

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Pesaro

14 Aug 2018

Ricciardo e Zoraide: Orientalism at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei

Pesaro

A new critical edition of Le Siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei, 13 August 2017

Roberto Abbado leads a strong cast in an inspired production by La Fura del Baus.

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Pesaro

13 Aug 2017

A new critical edition of Le Siège de Corinthe

By Laura Servidei

Pesaro

A frivolous La pietra del paragone at the Rossini Opera Festival

By James Imam, 11 August 2017

The young tenor Maxim Mironov, who played the poet Giocondo, was the name on everyone's lips by the end of the show. His voice is a modestly-sized and soft-grained, but it is beautifully produced, and focuses to a laser-like point up top.

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Pesaro

11 Aug 2017

A frivolous La pietra del paragone in Pesaro

By James Imam

Yekaterinburg

Italian musical metamorphoses in Yekaterinburg

By Olga de Kort, 07 October 2015

At the Eurasia Festival, the RAI Orchestra provide a thoroughly memorable evening of Italian music spanning a century.

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Yekaterinburg

07 Oct 2015

Italian musical metamorphoses in Yekaterinburg

By Olga de Kort

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Cologne

Erstklassige Solisten: Hilary Hahn und das Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Köln

By Cristina Burack, 27 October 2021

Mit Spaß und Raffinesse spielte Italiens Funkorchester unter Robert Trevino. Es zeigte sein Talent in Mussorgskys Bilder einer Ausstellung und begleitete Hilary Hahn in einer unvergesslichen Interpretation von Sibelius' Violinkonzert.

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Cologne

27 Oct 2021

Erstklassige Solisten: Hilary Hahn und das Orchestra RAI in Köln

By Cristina Burack

Rome

Mischa Maisky à l’Auditorium Parco delle Musica de Rome pour une soirée Dvořák mémorable

By Emma Granier, 14 May 2017

L’Orchestre Symphonique National de la Rai et son chef, James Conlon, ont occupé la scène de l’Auditorium Parco della Musica pour une soirée entièrement dédiée au compositeur tchèque Antonín Dvořák.

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Rome

14 May 2017

Mischa Maisky à l’Auditorium Parco delle Musica de Rome pour une soirée Dvořák mémorable

By Emma Granier