IL SIGNOR
BRUSCHINO
Gioachino Rossini
Carlo Lepore Maria Aleida Roberto De Candia David Alegret
Daniele Rustioni Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
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Conductor Daniele Rustioni
Orchestra Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini
Gaudenzio Carlo Lepore
Sofia Maria Aleida
Bruschino padre Roberto De Candia
Bruschino figlio / Francisco Brito
Commissario
Florville David Alegret
Filiberto Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore
Marianna Chiara Amarù
Staged by Teatro Sotterraneo
Video Director Tiziano Mancini
Length approx. 75'
Shot in HDTV 1080
Cat. no. A00009027
A production of UNITEL in co-production with Rossini Opera Festival and CLASSICA
The action takes place in a 21st-century Rossini theme park, a kind
of Rossinian Disneyland with souvenir stands and the like. With its
continuous alternation between 1813 and the present, it echoes
the alternation of real lover and fake suitor in the libretto. The plot,
which anticipates Donizetti’s Don Pasquale by about thirty years,
is a fireworks of mistaken identities, in which a young man wants
to marry his beloved, but has to disguise himself as her legitimate
suitor in order to trick her scheming guardian.
The music of this early Rossini opera – he was only 20 years old
when he wrote it – features many intricate ensemble pieces, as well
as verbal puns and gags, a hint of things to come. The Orchestra
Sinfonica G. Rossini under Daniele Rustioni provides the spirited
backdrop for the young singers Maria Aleida and David Alegret in
the lead roles.
This production from the Rossini Opera Festival is based on a new
edition of the work by the Rossini Foundation, and is a new addition
to the roster of unknown or little-known works produced by the
world’s only regular festival devoted solely to Rossini.
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IL SIGNOR
BRUSCHINO
Rossini’s one-act opera Il Signor Bruschino was premiered at the
Teatro di San Moisè in Venice in 1813. The chilly reception it was
given – it was performed only once – is difficult to understand
today, considering its bubbly, exhilarating music. As performed at
the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the work is a gem, and the
New York Times cheered the “clever production” conceived by the
young Florentine theater collective Teatro Sotteraneo, one of the
most innovative experimental groups in Italy.