From 26 August to 11 September
26/28/30 August
Auditorium Pedrotti
Edipo a Colono
Incidental music by Gioachino Rossini
On Sofocle’s play (translation by Dario Del Corno)
In Italian verse by Giambattista Giusti
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Lorenzo Tozzi and Piero Weiss
Conductor Claudio Scimone
Director Glauco Mauri
Bass soloist Samuel Ramey
Actors
Antigone Valeria Moriconi Edipo Glauco Mauri Creonte Pino Micol Abitanti di Colono Giampiero Fortebraccio Polinice Roberto Sturno Ismene Loredana Mauri Teseo Giorgio Tausani
Coro Filarmonico di Cluj
Chorus Master Florentin Mihaescu
Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato rumena di Tirgu Mures
27/29/31 August, 2 September
Teatro Rossini
Tancredi
Melodramma eroico by Gaetano Rossi
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Philip Gossett
Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti
Director, set and costume designer Pier Luigi Pizzi
Interpreters
Argirio Dalmacio Gonzales Tancredi Lucia Valentini Terrani Orbazzano Giancarlo Luccardi Amenaide Katia Ricciarelli Isaura Bernadette Manca di Nissa Roggiero Evghenia Dundekova
The British Choir Abroad
Chorus Master Timothy Hands
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
1 September
Palafestival
Stabat Mater
by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Interpreters
Daniela Dessì soprano Martine Dupuy contralto
Stabat Mater
by Gioachino Rossini
Interpreters
Daniela Dessì soprano Martine Dupuy mezzosoprano Dano Raffanti tenor Samuel Ramey bass
Conductor Alberto Zedda
Coro Filarmonico di Cluj
Chorus Master Florentin Mihaescu
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
4/6/8/10 September
Teatro Rossini
L’Italiana in Algeri
1981 production
Dramma giocoso by Angelo Anelli
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Azio Corghi
Conductor Donato Renzetti
Director Egisto Marcucci
Set and costume designer Maurizio Balò
Interpreters
Mustafà Samuel Ramey Elvira Maria Rosa Nazario Zulma Anita Caminada Haly Pino La Mazza Lindoro David Kuebler Isabella Carmen Gonzales/Bernadette Manca di Nissa (10 September) Taddeo Sesto Bruscantini
The British Choir Abroad
Chorus Master Timothy Hands
Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato rumena di Tirgu Mures
7/9/11 September
Teatro Rossini
La bottega fantastica
Dai Riens a La Boutique Fantasque
Concert/Ballet
Music by Gioachino Rossini and Ottorino Respighi
Conductor Lorant Szalman
Piano Antonio Ballista
Choreographer Andrew Degroat
Set designer and marionettes by Patrizia Magnani with Piero Tanca
Costume designer Enzo Cucchi
Interpreters
Marina Antognini, Jole Ceotto, Susanna Cerutti, Kevin Coker, Frank Conversano, Andrew Degroat, Giorgio De Martino, Pat Graf, Flavia Marini, Laila Minder, Michael O’Rourke, Lenny Pickett, Kathy Ray, Viviane Serry, Harry Sheppard
Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato rumena di Tirgu Mures
26/28 August
Teatro Sperimentale
La faticosa vecchiaia di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A Jest on Rossini
A one-act play by Lorenzo Arruga
Director Lamberto Puggelli
Interpreters
Mozart Gino Negri Rossini Elio Veller L’insegnante Marisa Minelli Il ragazzino Lamberto Puggelli jr. Il visitatore Umberto Ceriani Padre Mattei Delfo Menicucci La perpetua Susanna Marcomeni La Colbran Daniela Dessì
Concerts
August
Auditorium Pedrotti
Orchestra del Conservatorio Rossini
Conductor Michele Marvulli
3 September
Auditorium Pedrotti
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Conductor James Judd
5 September
Teatro Rossini
Quartetto Beethoven
Every evening
Chiesa del Nome di Dio
I Concerti delle ventitré
