From 8 to 22 August

8/11/14/17/20 August
Palafestival
Semiramide
new production
Melodramma tragico by Gaetano Rossi
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critical Edition by Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Philip Gossett and Alberto Zedda
Conducted by Carlo Rizzi
Direction by Dieter Kaegi
Settings and costumes by William Orlandi
Interpreters
Semiramide Darina Takova Arsace Daniela Barcellona Assur Ildar Abdrazakov Idreno Gregory Kunde Azema Sonia Lee Oroe Marco Spotti Mitrane Giorgio Trucco L’ombra di Nino Andrea Silvestrelli
Coro da Camera di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

9/12/15/18/21 August
Auditorium Pedrotti
Adina
1999 production, new staging
Farsa by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critcal Edition by Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Fabrizio Della Seta
Conducted by Renato Palumbo
Direction by Moni Ovadia
Settings and costumes by Giovanni Carluccio
Interpreters
Califo Marco Vinco Adina Joyce DiDonato Selimo Raul Giménez Alì Saimir Pirgu Mustafà Carlo Lepore 
Coro da Camera di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

10/13/16/19/22 August
Teatro Rossini
Le Comte Ory
new production
Opéra by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Published by Ricordi
Conducted by Jesús López Cobos
Direction, settings and costumes by Lluís Pasqual
Interpreters
Le Comte Ory Juan Diego Flórez Le Gouverneur Alastair Miles Isolier Marie-Ange Todorovitch Raimbaud Bruno Praticò La Comtesse Stefania Bonfadelli Ragonde Marina De Liso Alice Rossella Bevacqua
Coro da Camera di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

9/12 August
Teatro Sperimentale
IL MONDO DELLE FARSE
Adelina
new production
Melodramma sentimentale by Gaetano Rossi
Music by Pietro Generali
Revision on the autograph edited by Federico Agostinelli
Conducted by Julian Reynolds
Direction by Serena Sinigaglia
Settings by Maria Spazzi
Costumes by Giovanna Avanzi
Interpreters
Varner Andrea Concetti Adelina Cinzia Forte Don Simone Simone Alberghini Erneville Riccardo Botta Carlotta Annarosa Agostini Firmino Lorenzo Muzzi
Orchestra del Festival

13/16 August
Palafestival
FESTIVAL GIOVANE
Il viaggio a Reims
2001 production
Cantata scenica
Words by Luigi Balocchi
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Critcal Edition by Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, edited by Janet Johnson
Conducted by Christopher Franklin
Settings and direction by Emilio Sagi
Costumes by Pepa Ojanguren
Interpreters
Corinna Elizaveta Martirosyan Marchesa Melibea Marianna Pizzolato Contessa di Folleville Eunshil Kim Madama Cortese Sonia Peruzzo Cavalier Belfiore Filippo Adami Conte di Libenskof José Manuel Zapata Lord Sidney David Menéndez Don Profondo Wojciech Adalbert Gierlach Barone di Trombonok Federico Sacchi Don Alvaro/Antonio Boris Grappe Don Prudenzio Ramaz Chikviladze Don Luigino David Castañon Maddalena Margherita Settimo / 13 August Atzuko Watanabe / 16 August Delia Elzbieta Wróblewska / 13 August Sandra Pastrana Ocaña / 16 August Modestina Ulvyya Rasulova Zefirino/Gelsomino Daniele Zanfardino
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

21 August
Palafestival
Gioachino Rossini
Stabat Mater
for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Conducted by Alberto Zedda
Interpreters
Iano Tamar, soprano Daniela Barcellona, mezzosoprano Gregory Kunde, tenor Alastair Miles, bass
Coro da Camera di Praga
Chorus Master Lubomír Mátl
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

Concerts

28 luglio
Teatro Sperimentale
FESTIVAL GIOVANE
Accademia Rossiniana
Closing Concert

14 August
Teatro Rossini
ROSSINIMANIA
Usi mode capricci
Omaggi d’autore
Symphonic Concert
Conducted by Paolo Arrivabeni
Mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Musics by B. Britten, O. Respighi

15/18/19 August
Teatro Rossini
Concerti di Belcanto
Juan Diego Flórez
Carlo Rizzi, piano
Musics by A. Falconieri, W.A. Mozart, C.W. Gluck, J. Massenet, G. Bizet, G. Rossini
Silvia Tro Santafè
Julian Reynolds, piano
Musics by G. Rossini, E. Granados, J. Turina, X. Montsalvatge
Cinzia Forte
Antonino Fogliani, piano
Musics by W.A. Mozart, G. Donizetti, G. Rossini