From 30 July to 18 September
19/22/24/27 August
Teatro Rossini
Il Turco in Italia
1983 production
Dramma buffo by Felice Romani
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Margaret Bent
Conductor Rico Saccani
Director Egisto Marcucci
Set designer Emanuele Luzzati
Costume designer Santuzza Calě
Interpreters
Selim Ruggero Raimondi Donna Fiorilla Lucia Aliberti Don Geronio Enzo Dara Don Narciso Edoardo Gimenez Prosdocimo J. Patrick Raftery Zaida Gloria Banditelli Albazar Jorio Zennaro
Coro Filarmonico di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
The London Sinfonietta Opera Orchestra
23/29 August, 1/4 September
Auditorium Pedrotti
Bianca e Falliero
Melodramma by Felice Romani
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Gabriele Dotto
Conductor Donato Renzetti
Director, set and costume designer Pier Luigi Pizzi
Interpreters
Priuli Ambrogio Riva Contareno Chris Merritt Capellio Giorgio Surjan Falliero Marilyn Horne Bianca Katia Ricciarelli Costanza Patrizia Orciani Pisani Ernesto Gavazzi Ufficiale / Usciere Diego D’Auria
Coro Filarmonico di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
The London Sinfonietta Opera Orchestra
11/14/16/18 September
Teatro Rossini
Le Comte Ory
1984 production, new staging
Melodramma giocoso by Eugčne Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Conductor Gabriele Ferro
Director, set and costume designer Pier Luigi Pizzi
Interpreters
Le Comte William Matteuzzi Le Gouverneur Nicolas Rivenq Isolier Susanne Mentzer Raimbaud Claudio Desderi La Comtesse Mariella Devia Ragonde Susanna Anselmi Alice Alessandra Rossi
Coro Filarmonico di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
The London Sinfonietta Opera Orchestra
Concerts
30 luglio
Piazza del Popolo
Marilyn Horne
Conductor Charles Mackerras
Nuova Orchestra Italiana
Music by G. Rossini
12 August
Piazza del Popolo
June Anderson
Conductor Julian Reynolds
Chamber Orchestra Per Musica
Music by G. Rossini
15 August
Piazza del Popolo
Luciano Pavarotti
Conductor Emerson Buckley
Flute Andrea Griminelli
Chamber Orchestra Per Musica
Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia
Music by G. Verdi, W.C. Gluck, N. Rimskij-Korsakov, F. Cilea, C.A. Bixio, V. De Crescenzo, M. Buzzi, G. Bizet, U. Giordano, R. Leoncavallo, G. Rossini, E. Di Lazzaro, E. De Curtis
28 August
Auditorium Pedrotti
Montserrat Caballé
Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti
The London Sinfonietta Opera Orchestra
Music by G. Gelmetti, A. Vivaldi, B. Maderna, G.F. Händel, Ch.W. Gluck, A. Salieri, C. Cherubini, V. Bellini, G. Rossini
12 September
Chiesa di S. Giovanni
Coro Filarmonico di Praga
Conductor Lubomír Mátl
Baritone Carlo Desideri
Music by G.P. da Palestrina, J. Brahms, F. Liszt
15 September
Teatro Rossini
The London Sinfonietta Opera Orchestra
Conductor Paolo Olmi
Piano Michele Campanella
Music by C.M. von Weber, F. Liszt
17 September
Teatro Rossini
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Conductor and violin Salvatore Accardo
Double-bass Franco Petracchi
Music by G. Rossini, N. Paganini / G. Rossini, G. Bottesini, F. Mendelssohn
