Adelaide di Borgogna

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