From 12 to 25 August

12/16/19/22 August
Palafestival
Guillaume Tell
Opéra en quatre actes by Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet
Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti
Director, set and costume designer Pier Luigi Pizzi
Choreographer Heinz Spoerli
Interpreters
Guillaume Tell Michele Pertusi Arnold Melcthal Gregory Kunde Walter Furst Ildebrando D’Arcangelo Melcthal Frode Olsen Jemmy Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz Gesler Riccardo Ferrari Rodolphe Jeffrey Francis Roudi, Pêcheur Paul Austin Kelly Leuthold Eldar Aliev Mathilde Daniela Dessì Hedwige Monica Bacelli Un Chasseur Mauro Utzeri
Étoiles
Alessandra Ferri, José Manuel Carreño
Ballet Nacional de Cuba
Solo dancer Rafael Rivero
Coro da Camera di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
Coro della Radio Polacca di Cracovia
Chorus Master Orawska Malgorzata
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart

13/17/20/23 August
Auditorium Pedrotti
Edipo a Colono
new production
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 Yves Abel
Bass Stefano Rinaldi Miliani
Stage setting Giovanni Agostinucci
Coro della Radio Polacca di Cracovia
Chorus Master Orawska Malgorzata
ORT-Orchestra della Toscana

La cambiale di matrimonio
1991 production
Farsa comica by Gaetano Rossi
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Conductor Yves Abel
Director Luigi Squarzina
Set and costume designer Giovanni Agostinucci
Interpreters
Tobia Mill Bruno Praticò Fanny Eva Mei Edoardo Milfort Bruce Fowler Slook Roberto Frontali Norton Stefano Rinaldi Miliani Clarina Alessandra Palomba
ORT-Orchestra della Toscana

14/18/21/24 August
Teatro Rossini
Zelmira
Dramma per musica by Andrea Leone Tottola
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell
Conductor Roger Norrington
Director, set and costume designer Yannis Kokkos
Interpreters
Polidoro Giorgio Surjan Zelmira Mariella Devia Ilo Paul Austin Kelly Antenore Bruce Ford Emma Sonia Ganassi Leucippo Simone Alberghini Eacide Cesare Zamparino Gran Sacerdote Danilo Rigosa
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Chorus Master Piero Monti

23 August
Palafestival
Messa di Gloria
by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Giovanni Acciai and Philip Gossett
Conductor Yves Abel
Interpreters
Eva Mei soprano Monica Bacelli mezzosoprano Jeffrey Francis tenor Jorge Lopez-Yanez tenor Simone Alberghini bass
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Chorus Master Piero Monti

Concerts

15 August
Teatro Rossini
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Conductor Arnold Östman
Music by G. Rossini, B. Britten, J. Brahms

18 August
Teatro Sperimentale
Accademia Rossiniana
Closing Concert

21 August
Auditorium Pedrotti
ORT-Orchestra della Toscana
Coro da Camera di Praga
Conductor Gustav Kuhn
Soprano Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
Organ continuo Federica Iannella
Music by F.J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart

25 August
Santuario Madonna delle Grazie
Sacri Concerts nella Pesaro barocca
Conductor Marco Mencoboni
Nadia Ragni soprano Roberta Invernizzi soprano Rosa Dominguez soprano Elisabetta Tiso soprano Roberta Giua soprano Roberto Balconi alto Giampaolo Fagotto tenor Antonio Abete bass
Ensemble Sacro & Profano
Music by P. Pace, I. Donati, V. Pellegrini, L. Battiferri