2019, following the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Gioachino Rossini’s passing, marks a turning point for the Rossini Opera Festival: thanks to the new opportunities created by the anniversary, the Festival was able to kick off a project of enlargement and internationalization of its activity which in the coming years will be further extended.
The enlargement of the activity will take place starting from 2019 troughout three main events:
– late February / early March: week of Gioachino Rossini’s (Non) birthday;
– July-August: Accademia Rossiniana «Alberto Zedda» and 40th Rossini Opera Festival;
– November: the anniversary of Rossini’s passing.
Alongside these main events, there will be a series of other recitals in Italy and abroad that will bring the ROF, the Accademia Rossiniana and its artists to promote and spread the music of Rossini and the name of Pesaro, UNESCO Creative City of Music.
In February 2019, the ROF scheduled for the first time an opera outside its traditional summer calendar, in order to intercept a different audience, younger and less used to attending opera houses: La cambiale di matrimonio, staged at the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro in collaboration with the Conservatorio Rossini, the Scuola di Scenografia at the Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino and the Fondazione Rossini, co-produced with the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari.
In the same period, the Royal Opera House in Muscat (Oman) hosted La scala di seta, a ROF production staged in Pesaro in 2009 and then seen also at La Scala. The five-year partnership with the Omani theater concerns the five Rossinian farces: after L’occasione fa il ladro (2017) and La scala di seta, L’inganno felice will follow in 2020 and then the co-productions of La cambiale di matrimonio and Il signor Bruschino.
In July L’Italiana in Algeri will be presented at the Teatro Rossini in a version for puppets and recorded music from ROF performances created by the historic puppetry company Carlo Colla e Figli
In November at the Teatro Rossini, in the framework of the anniversary of Gioachino Rossini’s passing, Paolo Fresu, one of the most important contemporary jazz musicians, will propose a free interpretation of the Petite messe solennelle. The artist (who plays trumpet, flugelhorn, effects) will be accompanied on stage by Daniele Di Bonaventura (bandoneon) and Uri Caine (piano).
