The ROF 2025 presented

The programme for the 46th edition of the Rossini Opera Festival was presented this afternoon in Rome at the Sala Nassirya of the Senate of the Republic.

The Festival will be held in Pesaro from 10 to 22 August 2025. Four opera productions are proposed. The Festival will be opened by a new production of Zelmira (a title that has been missing from the ROF since 2009), directed by Giacomo Sagripanti and staged by Calixto Bieito. This will be followed by another new production, L’Italiana in Algeri, conducted by Dmitry Korchak and directed by Rosetta Cucchi.
There will be two revivals: La cambiale di matrimonio, conceived by Laurence Dale and this time directed by Christopher Franklin, already seen with great success at the ROF 2020 and on its subsequent tour in Oman, and Il viaggio a Reims in the usual version conceived by Emilio Sagi, directed by Alessandro Mazzocchetti and interpreted by the students of the Accademia Rossiniana ‘Alberto Zedda’.
The concert programme includes several rarities: the three cantatas Il pianto di Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo, La morte di Didone and Il pianto delle Muse in morte di Lord Byron will be performed for the first time in the critical edition of the Fondazione Rossini.
The 2025 edition will close with the Messa per Rossini, proposed by Giuseppe Verdi shortly after the composer’s death and written in 1869 by various composers (including Verdi himself, Lauro Rossi, Carlo Pedrotti and Carlo Coccia).

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