Rossini’s opera Adelaide di Borgogna was performed for the first time in Rome in December 1817, inaugurating the 1818 Carnival season. Since then, it has been revived only a few times in modern times, and the first performance in stage form was at the Rossini Opera Festival in 2011. For this new staging of the opera, French director Arnaud Bernard employs a play-within a-play device to portray the characters as singers rehearsing Adelaide di Borgogna for a performance at ROF. The drama outside of the Adelaide narrative in which the cast had their own stories became interwoven with the opera itself: “The evening was a resounding success” (bachtrack.com). “As Adelaide, Olga Peretyatko alternated between alluring vocal warmth and warrior-like grit in razor-sharp coloratura.” Financial Times
Il turco in Italia
The performance of Il turco in Italia at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro is presented as a totally renewed production. With references to films of the iconic film director Federico Fellini “Davide Livermore brought it all together adding the perfect physical comic schtick that matched up perfectly with the musical pace of Rossini’s masterpiece – it was spectacular” (Opera Today). “Obviously the brilliant outcome of the performance is also due to Speranza Scapucci’s conducting, well prepared and highly talented, …” (Il Resto del Carlino Pesaro). The cast featuring Erwin Schrott, “who manages the most intricate colloratura effortlessly with his agile, beautiful bass- baritone…” (General-Anzeiger) and Olga Peretyatko being “the ideal cast” (Das Opernglas) made it a marvellous performance.
Rossini Opera Festival 2016: Il Turco in Italia
The performance of Il turco in Italia at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro is presented as a totally renewed production. With references to films of the iconic film director Federico Fellini “Davide Livermore brought it all together adding the perfect physical comic schtick that matched up perfectly with the musical pace of Rossini’s masterpiece – it was spectacular” (Opera Today). “Obviously the brilliant outcome of the performance is also due to Speranza Scapucci’s conducting, well prepared and highly talented, …” (Il Resto del Carlino Pesaro). The cast featuring Erwin Schrott, “who manages the most intricate colloratura effortlessly with his agile, beautiful bass- baritone…” (General-Anzeiger) and Olga Peretyatko being “the ideal cast” (Das Opernglas) made it a marvellous performance.