Rossini Opera Festival 2027 – two new productions: La donna del lago and Tancredi
As the 2026 Rossini Opera Festival opened at Pesaro, the Festival announced its plans for 2027.
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Interview: Tenor Dave Monaco, at 30, reflects on his journey to becoming one of the world’s most exciting opera singers.
Tenor Dave Monaco chats with Graham Spicer about his journey to becoming one of today’s most sought-after Rossini and Mozart singers.
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The Rossini Opera Festival 2026 is announced
The 47th edition of the Rossini Opera Festival will be held in Pesaro from 11 to 23 August 2026.
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Winners of the 44th edition of the Franco Abbiati Music Critics’ Prize
Winners of Italy’s 44th edition of the Franco Abbiati Music Critics’ Prize have been announced.
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Rossini Opera Festival announces 2025 programme after this year’s opening performance
After last night’s opening opera at the Rossini Opera Festival, the programme for ROF 2025 festival was announced.
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Rossini Opera Festival 2024 presented in New York
The Rossini Opera Festival 2024 will be held in Pesaro from 7 to 23 August with 5 operas, 5 belcanto recitals, and many concerts.
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Matthew Lee, Andrea Mingardi and Matia Bazar in Liguria
Matthew Lee, Andrea Mingardi and Matia Bazar in Ceriale, Liguria – three musical evenings by the sea.
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Rossini Opera Festival 2024
As this year’s Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro closes, the programme for the Rossini Opera Festival 2024 is announced.
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Juan Diego Flórez interview: my 25 years with Rossini
Juan Diego Flórez sprang to fame 25 years ago at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival. He talks about his long relationship with the composer.
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Italian festivals of music and dance march onward with creative initiatives and Green Passes
The festivals of music and dance in Italy are back. Last year most were saved in extremis, but this year there was time for more creative solutions.
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Italy mourns the death of opera director Graham Vick at 67
Italy mourns the loss of the opera director Graham Vick who died today at 67 of Covid-related complications.
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Paolo Bordogna answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… singers’ edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? On the staircase of my apartment building, there was an echo that added force to my voice; I listened to it as though it were my voice. It was perhaps a way to conquer my shyness. Why did you start singing? One of my classmates invited me…
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The great basso buffo, Enzo Dara, dies at 78
Enzo Dara, who would have been 79 in October, has died in Mantua, his home town. The exemplary Italian basso buffo died at 6pm yesterday afternoon in the town where he was born on 13 October 1938. He was known for his great stage personality, his mastery of comic acting and timing, and extraordinary dexterity in his…
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Great musicologist Philip Gossett remembered by his colleagues and friends
Philip Gossett called himself “a fan, a musician and a scholar,” in that order. The great music scholar, who died yesterday in Chicago at the age of 75, saw himself first and foremost as a fan. It was his love and passion for opera, especially Italian opera of the 19th century, which led him to…
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Teatro Comunale di Bologna pulls its orchestra and chorus from Rossini Opera Festival
Rossini Opera Festival The Rossini Opera Festival and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna have announced their separation after 30 years. Starting with a Petite Messe Solennelle in 1987, Bologna has provided the orchestra and chorus for the main productions each year, resulting in almost 50 video and audio recordings of some of the most important…
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Nicola Alaimo answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? I started singing when I was very young, but seriously in 1996, together with literature and music. I was a 17-year-old full of hopes and dreams that were securely locked away in my heart. Dreams that were not just centred on singing, obviously, and now, at 37,…
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Chris Merritt’s brave plea for help
Chris Merritt has written a heartfelt plea for financial aid on gofundme.com – he is asking fans and friends to help kick-start his career. Dear Ones, near and far…..I am turning to this entrepreneurial undertaking as a way to finance my career back into functionality. Due to very unfortunate managerial problems, my career has experienced a terrible…
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Luca Ronconi, Italian director of theatre and opera, dies at 81
Italian director Luca Ronconi died yesterday evening in the Policlinico in Milan after a short illness. His health had been poor over the last years, he was on dialysis, and was complicated by pneumonia. He was 81. His collaboration with La Scala lasted for over thirty years and today the flag outside the theatre is…
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Stream Opera brings popular and rare delights to your PC
If you haven’t heard of StreamOpera – and you’re interested in opera – then visit their site to enrich your Christmas hols, as it is full of exciting and unusual titles which can be streamed to your computer. The Italian opera site is run by Videoerre which has published over 2,000 videos in collaboration with Italian State Television,…
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Juan Diego Flórez on his future, his family, his colleagues, and the economic crisis
To coincide with his Pesaro appearances this year, Juan Diego Flórez talked with Italy’s Il Corriere della Sera. It was at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival in 1996 that the young Peruvian suddenly burst on to the world stage when he stepped in to take the leading tenor role in Matilde di Shabran after Bruce Ford became indisposed….
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Juan Diego Florez talks about his fairy-tale wedding, his fans, and being lazy
On the eve of Juan Diego Florez’s Albert Hall concert, The Sunday Times sent a journalist to his home in Pesaro. This beautiful town on Italy’s east coast – home to the Rossini Opera Festival, and where Pavarotti had his much-filmed villa – is where Florez has made his base with his wife and baby although, inevitably,…
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Daniela Barcellona sings Scarlatti
The beautiful and technically demanding arias by Scarlatti constitute, surprisingly, the first recital disc by Italian mezzo Daniela Barcellona. If the record companies don’t offer you a contract when you’re fresh out of college it seems you need to sit back and be patient. Her début at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, which launched her career, was back in 1999….
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Even Florez is fallible: “a resonant expostulation of “Oh, shit” from the performer”
Juan Diego Florez has been used to glowing reviews since his début at the Rossini Opera Festival. Recently he has started receiving some sterner criticism, and reactions to his latest recital in London was no different. Alexandra Coghlan for The Arts Desk writes: We’ve all seen singers go wrong. Forgetting words, missing entries, skipping verses – it happens often…
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