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| Composer | Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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The Rossini Opera Festival comes home! Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro
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.
Venice - six scenes, ten young singers.
A split-level stage featuring an ornate stairwell and scaffolding was the setting for this the tenth Jette Parker Young Artists’ Summer Performance. Entitled ‘Veneziana’, the specially compiled programme embodied the visions of Venice dreamt by Rossini, Donizetti, Britten and Offenbach in six sets of Opera Scenes.