From 11 to 29 August
11/13/16/18 August
Teatro Rossini
L’Italiana in Algeri
new production
Dramma giocoso by Angelo Anelli
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Azio Corghi
Conductor David Robertson
Director, set and costume designer Dario Fo
Interpreters
Mustafŕ Donato Di Stefano Elvira Inger Dam-Jensen Zulma Svetlana Sidorova Haly Ildebrando D’Arcangelo Lindoro Markus Schäfer Isabella Jennifer Larmore Taddeo Bruno Praticň
Coro Filarmonico di Varsavia
Chorus Master Henryk Wojnarowski
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
20/23/25/28 August
Palafestival
Semiramide
1992 production
Melodramma tragico by Gaetano Rossi
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Philip Gossett and Alberto Zedda
Conductor Roger Norrington
Director, set and costume designer Hugo De Ana
Choreografer Leda Lojodice
Interpreters
Semiramide Cecilia Gasdia Arsace Martine Dupuy Assur Michele Pertusi Idreno Rockwell Blake Azema Ornella Bonomelli Oroe Luciano Leoni Mitrane Jacek Laszczkowski L’ombra di Nino Riccardo Ferrari
Gruppo di danza del Rossini Opera Festival
Coro da Camera di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
24/26/27/29 August
Teatro Rossini
L’inganno felice
new production
Dramma giocoso by Giuseppe Foppa
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Conductor Carlo Rizzi
Director Graham Vick
Set and costume designer Richard Hudson
Interpreters
Bertrando Octavio Arévalo Isabella Kathleen Cassello / Anna Rita Taliento (27 August) Ormondo Francesco Piccoli Batone Lucio Gallo Tarabotto Lorenzo Regazzo
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
12/13/14/16 August
Teatro Sperimentale
Pensa alla Patria
Zibaldone rossiniano a tema raccolto da Philip Gossett per un canovaccio di Ugo Gregoretti
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Piano and conductor Arnold Bosman
Director Ugo Gregoretti
Set and costume designer Gabbris Ferrari
Singers Debora Beronesi, Patrizia Biccirč, Irene De Olavide, Elisabetta Scano, Gert Henning Jensen, Juan Luque, Anton Keremidciev, Mauro Utzeri
Actors Stefano Lescovelli, Franco Arcangeli, Marzio Mancini
Introduced by Philip Gossett
19/22 August
Palafestival
Stabat Mater
by Gioachino Rossini
Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti
Interpreters
Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano Gloria Scalchi contralto Marcello Giordani tenor Roberto Scandiuzzi bass
Coro da Camera di Praga
Chorus Master Josef Pancík
Coro Filarmonico di Varsavia
Chorus Master Henryk Wojnarowski
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Concerts
14 August
Teatro Rossini
Quartetto Beethoven di Roma
con Franco Petracchi
Carlo Bruno piano
Felix Ayo violin
Alfonso Ghedin viola
Mihai Dancila cello
Franco Petracchi double-bass
Music by W.A. Mozart, G. Mahler, F. Schubert
15/18 August
Teatro Sperimentale
Accademia Rossiniana
Closing Concert
19/21/24/26 August
Teatro Sperimentale
Quattro concerti per piano romantico
Roberto Cominati
Music by J. Brahms, G. Rossini, R. Schumann
Francesco Nicolosi
Music by G. Rossini, V. Bellini, S. Thalberg/V. Bellini, S. Thalberg/G. Rossini
Lucio Falcinelli
Music by F. Liszt, G. Rossini
Giorgia Tomassi
Music by R. Schumann, G. Rossini, F. Chopin
21 August
Chiesa di S. Giovanni
Coro da Camera di Praga
Conductor Josef Pancík
Soprano Dagmar Maskova
Contralto Lenka Kucerova
Tenor Richard Sporka
Bass Jiri Uherek
Organ Josef Ksica
Music by G. Verdi, F. Liszt, A. Dvorák
27 August
Palafestival
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Conductor Gary Bertini
Soprano Inger Dam-Jensen
Music by W.A. Mozart, G. Mahler
29 August
Villa Imperiale
Philharmonische Bläservereinigung Stuttgart
Conductor Willy Freivogel
Music by G. Rossini
