Rossini Opera Festival

Rossini Opera Festival

The Rossini Opera Festival (frequently referred to among musicians as the Pesaro Festival) is an opera festival held in August of each year in Pesaro, Italy, the birthplace of the opera composer Gioacchino Rossini.

Performances are given in the 850-seat theatre built in 1818, the Teatro Rossini and, since 1988, the modified "Palasport" sports arena which holds 1,500. Since 2000 another venue, theTeatro Sperimentale (Experimental Theatre), has offered the opportunity to present smaller-scale or minor works by contemporaries of Rossini such as Mosca, Generali, and Coccia.

Rossini's music in Pesaro

Prior to the establishment of the Festival, it was not uncommon to see productions of Rossini's music taking place to mark occasions in his life and death. Thus, in 1868 when the composer died in Paris, the "Stabat Mater" was performed (along with "Semiramide" and "Otello"). The first centennial of Rossini's birth in 1892 saw "L'occasione fa il ladro" and the 20th Century seasons saw many Rossini operas including many quite obscure ones.

The Festival established in 1980

The Festival was established in 1980 with the aim of making the world more aware of Rossini's neglected operas and presenting all of them in collaboration with the G. Ricordi & Co. music publishing house, which published their critical editions. Of the approximately three dozen operas written, only a handful are regularly presented. On 13 August 1993, the Italian parliament unanimously approved the Special Law N. 319 "Regulations in support of the Rossini Opera Festival", which recognizes the Pesaro Festival's achievements in the reviving of Rossini's operas as entitled to be included among the state-supervised works of restoration of the national artistic heritage. The ensuing grant (of which parliament has recently approved the continuation) is financed from the funds of the "Beni Culturali".

The Rossini Festival has seen many of Rossini's lesser-known works revived, some of which have since entered the standard operatic repertoire.

From the beginning, the Festival attracted some major singers including Marilyn Horne, Montserrat Caballé, Ruggero Raimondi and Juan Diego Flórez. Based on press reports, some productions have been extremely controversial.

References

*Zeitz, Karyl Lynn, "Italian Opera Houses and Festivals", Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5359-0

ee also

*List of opera festivals

External links

* [http://www.rossinioperafestival.it/ Rossini Opera Festival website]


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