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Rossini Festival Pesaro

Gioachino Rossini

Daniela Barcellona Dmitri Jurowski Orchestra del Nicola Ulivieri Teatro Comunale Bogdan Mihai di Bologna Adelaide di Borgogna

Conductor Dmitri Jurowski rediscovery that will delight every Rossini lover! From Orchestra Orchestra del Teatro the Rossini Festival in Pesaro comes the first staged Comunale di Bologna Aperformance since 1825 of “Adelaide di Borgogna”, written Chorus Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 1817 for Rome’s Teatro Argentina, which also produced Rossini’s Chorus Master Lorenzo Fratini “Barbiere di Siviglia” and “Cenerentola”. Set in medieval times, the relates the tale of a king’s widow who is used as a pawn in Ottone diplomatic and amorous intrigues, which lead to the victory of the Adelaide Jessica Pratt imperial politics of Emperor Otto I. Berengario Nicola Ulivieri Adelberto Bogdan Mihai The work unfolds a compact succession of brilliant arias, duets, Eurice Jeannette Fischer trios and quartets, of which especially the finales of each act Iroldo Francesca Pierpaoli provide particularly attractive high points: propelled along by Ernesto Clemente Antonio Daliotti the boisterous chorus and Rossini’s typical pumping rhythms, the soloists cut through the vocal and instrumental masses with Staged by Pier’Alli cleverly inserted coloraturas and high notes. Rossini thought so Video Director Tiziano Mancini highly of “Adelaide’s” music that he used no fewer than nine of its numbers in another work of his, “Edoardo e Cristina”.

Length 137' The Rossini Festival has always nurtured its vocal talents, and many Cat. no. A00008975 a famed coloratura singer of our day has spent his or her summer in Pesaro testing the waters of bravura parts in the more than 30 Bonus years of the festival’s existence. “Adelaide” stars internationally Making of “Adelaide di Borgogna” acclaimed and sought-after mezzo Daniela Barcellona as Ottone, Video Director Davide Mancini and, in the role of Adelaide, a young Australian , Jessica Length 17' Pratt, who seems to possess a natural-born bel-canto voice. Director Pier’ Alli has devised a modern, stylish look for his Cat. no. A00550003 production, which interweaves medieval aspects with ironically used elements from the time of the opera’s genesis, such as a Shot in HDTV 1080 stylized battle with umbrellas.

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