GIOACHINO ROSSINI
LA GAZZETTA
Nicola Alaimo • Hasmik Torosyan • Vito Priante • Raffaella Lupinacci
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
staged by
conducted by
Marco Carniti
Enrique Mazzola
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
LA GAZZETTA
Don Pomponio Storione
Lisetta
Filippo
Doralice
Anselmo
Alberto
Madama La Rose
Monsù Traversen
Tommasino
Nicola Alaimo
Hasmik Torosyan
Vito Priante
Raffaella Lupinacci
Dario Shikhmiri
Maxim Mironov
Josè Maria Lo Monaco
Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore
Ernesto Lama
Produced by Metis Film
Video Director Tiziano Mancini
Length: approx. 155'
Shot in HDTV 1080/50i
Cat. no. A 000 50033
A production of UNITEL CLASSICA
in co-production with
Rossini Opera Festival
The event that takes place annually in Rossini’s birthplace, praised by
press and public for its witty stagings even of Rossini’s less well known
works, has landed on its feet: with La gazzetta, the Rossini Opera
Festival has triumphed once again!
A real “singfest” enthused Deutschlandfunk, while Online Musik Magazin
wrote of “frenetic applause” – the new production of Gioachino
Rossini’s seldom performed opera La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per
concorso (The Newspaper, or The Marriage Competition) at the 2015
Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro proved to be a musical triumph. The
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna responded splendidly to
the young Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola: as “one of the most
gifted artists of his generation, he is not only a faithful interpreter of
the score, he sends the orchestra of the Teatro di Bologna – and his
audience too – into a veritable Rossini delirium” (Deutschlandfunk).
The musical comedy based on Carlo Goldoni’s play Il matrimonio per
concorso has lost none of its appeal almost two centuries after its 1816
premiere in the Teatro dei Fiorentini. A newly-rich merchant places
newspaper advertisements to find a suitable husband for his daughter,
which leads to amorous entanglements and in the end to two happy
couples.
Director Marco Carniti stages his colourful production in the Paris of
the 1950s, in a well-judged distillation of Rossini’s ironic social criticism:
“the direction of Marco Carniti has intelligently focused on the ironic
dimension of a somewhat confused libretto” (Huffington Post). Nicola
Alaimo embodies the nouveau-riche Don Pomponio Storione in every
muscle: “he has confirmed his admirable dramatic qualities, with
evidence of an unsuspected physical agility” (Huffington Post). Pesaro
debutante Hasmik Torosyan stands out as Lisetta (Deutschlandfunk).
Tenor Maxim Mironov as Alberto is another star of the production:
“His big aria in Act II proved one of the musical highlights of the
evening.” (Online Musik Magazin)
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Orchestra Orchestra e Coro del Teatro
Comunale di Bologna
Conductor Enrique Mazzola
Stage Director Marco Carniti