Rossini Festival Pesaro: Guillaume Tell
"The Rossini Festival supplied brilliant solutions" to the challenges of Rossini's rarely performed work composed in the style of French "grand" opera. On the rostrum Gianfranco Mariotti, graduate of Pesaro’s Rossini Conservatory and one of the the world’s most sought after conductors for this repertoire, and "may be the only one person more appreciated in Pesaro than Juan Diego Flórez," who performs the role of Arnold Melchtal in this production. (Opera Today)