AURELIANO IN PALMIRA

Dramma serio per musica di Giuseppe Felice Romani

Edizione critica Fondazione Rossini/Casa Ricordi, a cura di Will Crutchfield

Direttore WILL CRUTCHFIELD

Regia MARIO MARTONE

Scene SERGIO TRAMONTI

Costumi URSULA PATZAK

Progetto luci PASQUALE MARI

Interpreti

Aureliano MICHAEL SPYRES

Zenobia JESSICA PRATT

Arsace LENA BELKINA

Publia RAFFAELLA LUPINACCI

Oraspe DEMPSEY RIVERA

Licinio SERGIO VITALE

Gran sacerdote DIMITRI PKHALADZE

CORO DEL TEATRO COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA

Maestro del Coro ANDREA FAIDUTTI

ORCHESTRA SINFONICA G. ROSSINI

Nuova produzione

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

Commedia di Cesare Sterbini

Edizione critica Fondazione Rossini/Casa Ricordi, a cura di Alberto Zedda

Direttore GIACOMO SAGRIPANTI

Ideazione, progettazione, elementi scenici, movimenti di regia, video e costumi ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI URBINO

Interpreti

Il Conte d’Almaviva JUAN FRANCISCO GATELL

Bartolo PAOLO BORDOGNA

Rosina CHIARA AMARÙ

Figaro FLORIAN SEMPEY

Basilio ALEX ESPOSITO

Berta FELICIA BONGIOVANNI

Fiorello / Ufficiale ANDREA VINCENZO BONSIGNORE

Ambrogio ALBERTO PANCRAZI

CORO SAN CARLO DI PESARO

Maestro del Coro SALVATORE FRANCAVILLA

ORCHESTRA DEL TEATRO COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA

Esecuzione in forma semiscenica

In addition to Paolo Bordogna ( class of 1998 ) who will be Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, three members of the 2013 class of the Accademia Rossiniana are back at ROF 2014. This  time they will be performing in the Festival’s principal operas. Vassilis Kavayas will take on the role of Eustazio in Armida. Fellow graduates Dempsey C’Rivera, Sergio Vitale, and Dimitri Phkaladze will appear in Aureliano in Palmyra as Oraspe, Licinio, and the Gran Sacerdote. The Accademia continues to nuture young singers well!

The ROF’s Academia Rossiniana – a two week total immersion in Rossini singing – concluded on the 18th of July with a concert in the Teatro Sperimentale in Pesaro. The school has students selected from around the world studying under the direction of Alberto Zedda with the participation of the head of ROF, Gianfranco Marioti, as well as some of the stage directors and artists involved in this season’s operas.

This year, one of the highlights was a master class given by Juan Diego Florez.

Selected  graduates will appear in two performances of Il Viaggio in Reims in the Teatro Rossini on August 13th and 16th.

Read the full release at the Rossini Opera Festival website.

Americans have been part of the fabric of the Rossini Opera Festival from the beginning. Artists such as Samuel Ramey, Marilyn Horne, June Anderson, Chris Merritt, Rockwell Blake, Renee Fleming, and Bruce Ford are some of the best known. In recent years Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee, Jennifer Larmore, and Amanda Forsythe have brought their talents to Pesaro.
This year, Americans Micheal Spyres and Will Crutchfield will be part of  Aureliano in Palmyra in its first performances based on the recently completed critical edition. Spyres and Crutchfield were part of the team that presented Ciro in Babylonia at ROF 2012. They were joined by Jessica Pratt and Ewa Podles. Pratt will be starring in Aureliano, and Podles will be giving a concert at the Teatro Rossini during the Festival.
The stars always seem to align in Pesaro.