Not so hot off the press: La gazzetta returns to Pesaro

Carlo Lepore (Don Pomponio)

Martiniana Antonie, Pietro Adaini, Carlo Lepore, Giorgio Caoduro and Maria Grazia Schiavo

The cast of La gazzetta

Giorgio Caoduro (Filippo), Carlo Lepore, Pietro Adaini (Alberto) and Ernesto Lama (Tommasino)

By Mark Pullinger, 11 August 2022

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“Rizzi is a fine Rossinian and injected plenty of spice into the orchestral playing”

Reviewed at Teatro Rossini, Pesaro on 10 August 2022

Rossini, La gazzetta (The Newspaper or Marriage Contest)

Rossini Opera Festival

Carlo Rizzi, Conductor

Marco Carniti, Director

Manuela Gasperoni, Set Designer

Maria Filippi, Costume Designer

Fabio Rossi, Lighting Designer

Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini

Coro del Teatro della Fortuna "M. Agostini"

Carlo Lepore, Don Pomponio

Maria Grazia Schiavo, Lisetta

Pietro Adaíni, Alberto

Giorgio Caoduro, Filippo

Martiniana Antonie, Doralice

Andrea Niño, Madama La Rosa

Alejandro Baliñas Vieites, Anselmo

Pablo Gálvez, Monsù Traversen

Ernesto Lama, Tommasino

Pizzi’s elegant, black and white Barbiere convinces again in Pesaro

Laura Servidei, 10th August

Rossini’s most famous masterpiece returns to Pesaro in Pier Luigi Pizzi’s beloved production, with a solid cast.

***11

Anastasia Bartoli a regal Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival

Laura Servidei, 9th August

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

****1

L’equivoco stravagante returns to the Rossini Opera Festival

Laura Servidei, 8th August

Rossini’s ill-fated farce finds new life in the intelligent and enjoyable 2019 production by Leiser and Caurier at the Rossini Opera Festival, featuring a great cast under the unwavering baton of Michele Spotti.

****1

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

Laura Servidei, 7th August

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.

***11

Adelaide di Borgogna returns to the Rossini Opera Festival

Laura Servidei, 13th August

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.

****1

Aureliano in Palmira in Pesaro: where the barber was born

Laura Servidei, 12th August

The Rossini Opera Festival revives a 2014 production by Mario Martone with a young, vibrant cast.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Not so hot off the press: La gazzetta returns to the Rossini Opera Festival