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 (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...

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 ...

Pagliacci is a 1982 Italian film of Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Filmed at Milan's La Scala opera house, the cast stars Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas and Juan Pons. The story is set in southern Italy and recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (pag...

Apart from its overture, the spirited opera L’Italiana in Algeri - the most “buffo” of Rossini’s buffo operas - had long been neglected on opera and concert stages. In honor of its 200th anniversary, it returned to the Rossini Opera Festival with Davide Livermore’s “virtuoso production rich in co...

Rossini was only 20 years old when he wrote his fifth opera, Ciro in Babilonia (Cyrus in Babylon), for the Teatro Comunale Ferrara in 1812. Davide Livermore's staging from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, sets the action in the 1920s with period black-and-white film inserts, lavish costumes ...

In this colorful and exuberant production by Damiano Michieletto, the comical farce becomes an Almodóvaresque spectacle that "transforms all the singers into extraordinary actors" (La Stampa). Rossini's one-act opera weaves a burlesque tale of secret husbands and would-be lovers where general hil...

Rossini's work about love, war, and the jealous rivalry between the Roman emperor Aurelian and Prince Arsace of Persia over the rebellious Queen Zenobia of Palmyra first premiered in 1813 at La Scala. This award-winning 2014 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro production staged by Mario Martone feat...

Graham Vick's thought-provoking, modern-day interpretation of Rossini’s three-act opera Mosè in Egitto (Moses in Egypt) sets the scene for superior music-making at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. For conductor Roberto Abbado, the transposition of the action to the present day releases the e...

Composed in 1818, yet not performed until 1826, Adina is the last of Rossini's one-act comic operas full of witty misunderstandings and trademark musical features including high C's for the tenor and stunning coloratura for the soprano. Staged at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy in 2018,...