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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Felicity Lott – a personal remembrance
A personal tribute to a marvellous woman and singer from various encounters over forty years.
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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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Review: Norwegian National Opera’s Barber of Seville
Graham Watts sees Barber of Seville with Alasdair Kent (mesmerising), Lilly Jørstad (great beauty and clarity of tone), and Gurgen Baveyen (confident expression).
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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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Cecilia Bartoli announces opera and ballet for Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2026
‘Travel’ is the theme chosen by Artistic Director Cecilia Bartoli for the Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2026, which runs from 22 to 25 May.
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Review: Astana Opera’s production of Rossini’s La scala di seta
Graham Watts sees La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) in Kazakhstan – a performance of unbridled joy.
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Cecilia Bartoli in Rimini with the tormented love of the great composers
Cecilia Bartoli returns to a childhood theatre in Rimini, a theatre she reopened 7 years ago.
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Countertenor Franco Fagioli’s new album – The Last Castrato, Arias for Velluti
Countertenor Franco Fagioli’s new album – The Last Castrato, Arias for Velluti – will be released on 28 February.
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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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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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[Interview] Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee on their new Rossini album
Tenors Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee celebrate the star singers of Rossini’s time in a new album, Amici e Rivali (Friends and Rivals). The disc features arias, duets, and trios from seven of the composer’s operas, written between 1815 and 1826: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Armida, La donna del Lago, Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra, Le Siège de Corinthe, and Ricciardo e Zoraide.
There are also two guests on the disc – the Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught and the young Spanish tenor Xabier Anduaga. The recording was made at the artistic home of conductor Corrado Rovaris and I Virtuosi Italiani, the Teatro Ristori in Verona.
Except for Il barbiere which premiered in Rome, all the works represented on Amici e Rivali have their roots in Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Although Le Siège de Corinthe was written for Paris
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Salzburg, L’italiana in Algeri – the role Cecilia Bartoli was born to play
Cecilia Bartoli was made to sing Isabella. Rossini wrote L’italiana in Algeri 200 years ago, but he could have been thinking of her. She waited until she was 50 to sing the role, though having pushed her voice into the stratosphere with feats of extreme-singing in her Sacrificium programme [the castrati repertoire] she hindered her…
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Gioachino Rossini at La Scala – a new exhibition, 150 years after the composer’s death
Gioachino Rossini died in France on 13 November 1868. For the 150th Anniversary of the composer’s death director and designer Pier Luigi Pizzi will curate an exhibition to commemorate the event. La Scala‘s musical director Riccardo Chailly brought The Thieving Magpie to the theatre last season, as well as the Mass for Rossini, dedicated to…
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Interview with Riccardo Chailly on Andrea Chénier and his 40 years at La Scala
Chénier is not only a masterpiece of verismo, but it mirrors many contrasting aspects that preceded the music of the 20th century: there’s Wagner, with echoes of the prelude of Tristan; there is Mahler, in the striking modernity of the orchestration; there is Puccini, who was certainly influenced when writing his Tosca four years later……
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Rossini’s Otello is back at La Scala after 145 years
After 145 years, Rossini‘s Otello is back at La Scala. Incredibly, it hasn’t been performed at the theatre since 1870. A welcome return then for Rossini’s take on Shakespeare’s story, which he and his librettist took some liberties with (a billet-doux instead of a handkerchief and no Cassio), one of the biggest changes being to pump…
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The Stella of Kansas goes to Naples: Joyce DiDonato’s latest album
Joyce DiDonato‘s new album, Stella di Napoli, is out in September and “ventures far off the beaten bel canto track”, says her Erato label. Graciously, Cecilia Bartoli is nominated because, as everyone knows, she has been wandering far from the traditional mezzo career path for years. Italian conductor Riccardo Minasi, who collaborated with Bartoli when…
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Cecilia Bartoli’s début in L’italiana in Algeri is cancelled
Cecilia Bartoli‘s much anticipated début as Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri this weekend has been cancelled. The Italian girl in Dortmund, where the concert performance of Rossini‘s opera was planned for Friday 27 June and Sunday 29 June, is ill. Being that her presence in the cast is the main reason for buying a ticket, there will not…
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Fiorenza Cossotto receives the Marietta Alboni award
Mezzo soprano Fiorenza Cossotto has been awarded the first Contr’alto di donna prize, given in honour of the great contralto Marietta Alboni. The ceremony and conversation with Fiorenza Cossotto came after a concert celebrating the repertoire of Alboni, held in the enchanting Teatro Bonci, the theatre of her hometown Cesana, near Italy‘s northeast coast. Cossotto, seventy-nine next…
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Teresa Berganza’s 80th birthday bash
Tomorrow evening, 21 June 2013, the Teatro Real in Madrid celebrates the 80th birthday of local girl Teresa Berganza. Certainly, the encyclopedias say that she was born in 1935, but she can hardly have posters announcing celebrations for her 78th birthday, so I guess time has finally caught up with her. Sylvain Cambreling and Alejo…
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Joyce DiDonato’s recital interrupted by a call from Rossini
Joyce DiDonato well and truly conquered La Scala‘s audience during her recital last night. She was greeted by an ovation that took her aback – the sort of applause reserved for a Marilyn Horne or Teresa Berganza, recognising their past triumphs on the legendary stage. In this case is was more of a signal to…
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New records set at Cecilia Bartoli’s Whitsun Festival in Salzburg
A new record for visitors and revenue has been set at Salzburg’s Whitsun Festival. The Festival, which ran from 17-20 May, boasted 13,450 visitors from 43 countries, who spent 1.3 million Euros in tickets. After the artistic and economic success of last year’s and this year’s Festival, the contract with the artistic director Cecilia Bartoli has been extended…
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Cecilia Bartoli triumphs at La Scala amidst catcalls and boos
After nineteen years, Cecilia Bartoli‘s return to Milan‘s La Scala tonight was long overdue. Daniel Barenboim was the instigator of the event, the opening of the La Scala Philharmonic‘s season. An obviously tense Bartoli immediately illuminated the theatre with her smile, though her voice needed a little longer to give the audience what they were…
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Cecilia Bartoli rehearses with Daniel Barenboim at La Scala for her comeback concert tomorrow
As I write, Cecilia Bartoli is rehearsing with Daniel Barenboim and the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra in the Milanese theatre. Tomorrow marks her comeback to the theatre after an absence of nearly 20 years. Although riding high on the success of her new disc Mission (over 10 million copies already sold, and Christmas sales are likely to be strong) she…
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Cecilia Bartoli on her voice, her repertoire, on turning down Carmen and facing up to Norma
Cecilia Bartoli‘s been busy: not only getting ready for her new tour featuring the extraordinarily difficult arias by Agostino Steffani that are featured on her new CD Mission, but also doing the promotional rounds with radio, television and newspaper interviews. The content is mostly the same – why Steffani? who was he? – but it…
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Restaurants of Ghent, Brussels and Mechelen during Flanders is a Festival
This is not a food blog, but as food has, in some way, influenced every dancer, musician, actor, and for that matter everyone else on the planet, I though I could squeeze it in. Food had a profound effect on rotund Gioachino Rossini, and I’m guessing that Mariinsky ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina is less of a foodie, but…
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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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