State of siege
An amateurish production of Le siège de Corinthe, combined with heavy-handed conducting, at Pesaro weakens the defenses of one of Rossini‘s most topical operas.
Rossini Opera Festival
7 pieces since 2012.
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La scala di seta
Iurii Samoilov, Paolo Bordogna, and Hasmik Torosyan lead a live performance from Pesaro
Streamed August 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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L’occasione fa il ladro
Alessandro Bonato leads a live broadcast from Pesaro featuring Dave Monaco
Streamed August 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Le siège de Corinthe
Carlo Rizzi conducts Adrian Sâmpetrean, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, and Matteo Roma in a live opening night broadcast from Pesaro
Streamed August 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Turkish delight on a moonlit night
While it may not be top-tier Rossini, Teatro Nuovo’s mounting of Il turco in Italia is still good summer fun.
L’italiana in Algeri
Daniela Barcellona leads a live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
Soirées musicales & La cambiale di matrimonio
A live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
Zelmira
A live broadcast of the opening night of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with Anastasia Bartoli and Lawrence Brownlee
Found in mint condition
Only by knowing what went on around the great composers is it possible to truly understand why they are great and why their operas have come down to us (and why dozens of other titles have been left behind).
Gianna Rolandi 1952-2021
American soprano Gianna Rolandi died Sunday morning, according to a number of her friends and colleagues. She was 68.
A touch of the stone
“Trove Thursday” turns its Rossini-150 series to one of the composer’s least known but tastiest comic gems La Pietra del Paragone with Julia Hamari, Justino Diaz, Alessandro Corbelli, Claudio Desderi and Paolo Barbacini conducted by Roberto Abbado.
Come what May
At “Trove Thursday” it’s May Night, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1880 comic opera, in a recent broadcast from Moscow led by pianist-conductor Mikhail Pletnev.
La figlia dell’aria
For her third solo recording, Olga Peretyatko summons the two men who launched her career less than a decade ago
Rung number
Unlike Mozart, the young Gioacchino Rossini seldom let his ambitions strain relations with employers.
By Adriel
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