Zelmira - Rossini Opera Festival 2009
Opera
•
3h 12m
Celebrated tenor Juan Diego Flórez stars in the first production of Rossini's Zelmira on film - a rarely performed opera regarded as one of Rossini's most musically complex works. Flórez is joined by a dazzling cast, headed by Kate Aldrich in the title role, Gregory Kunde (Antenore) and Alex Esposito (Polidoro). Recorded at the Rossini Opera Festival, Barberio Corsetti's production places the opera in a modern setting, amalgamating the present-day and the ancient world with performers in contemporary military dress, flanked by crumbling classical statues. "Juan Diego Flórez delivers laser-like top notes... Kate Aldrich, sings with glittering coloratura and great musicality." (The Telegraph)
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Conductor: Roberto Abbado
Venue: Rossini Opera Festival
Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Cast/Soloist: Juan Diego Flórez, Kate Aldrich, Alex Esposito, Gregory Kunde, Marianna Pizzolato
Genre: Opera
Up Next in Opera
-
Il Signor Bruschino - Rossini Opera F...
Welcome to Rossiniland, a 21st-century Rossini theme park where the 1800s meet the 2000s and tourists are free to wander and gawp at the scintillating spectacle taking place around them. Innovative theatre company Teatro Sotterraneo transferred Rossini's light-hearted one-act operatic farce to a ...
-
Il Turco in Italia - Rossini Opera Fe...
Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy), an opera buffa in two acts, is one of Rossini's wittiest works. This renewed production staged at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro 2016 is a lively performance interpreted by an ideal ensemble cast featuring Erwin Schrott, making his Pesaro debut, and t...
-
Sigismondo - Rossini Opera Festival 2010
Premiered in 1814, this rarely revived opera staged at the 2010 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro was hailed by the press as a "perfect symbiosis of music and stage work" that yields "truly brilliant" theater. Early Rossini has something buoyant and vibrant about it – even when it is a dramma per ...
