Cristian Della Chiara in conversation with Josi Steinfeld Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 He is Rossini Opera Festival's esteemed General Director, who has recently assumed a significant role as a member of the Board of Directors for Italia Festival. We met during Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) 20...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Aureliano in Palmira Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 The public realised that 21-year-old Rossini was something special in 1813 after the success of Signor Bruschino and Italiana in Algeri. But Aureliano in Palmira, commissioned in 1813 to open La Scala’s carniva...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Eduardo E Cristina Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 Rossini had under a month to compose Eduardo. Eduardo was a ‘centone’(patchwork) opera, as 19/26 numbers were ‘borrowed’ from earlier operas -in particular Adelaide di Borgogna, Ricciardo e Zoraide and Ermione...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Adelaide of Burgundy Adelaide di Borgogna Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 Rossini’s 23rd opera, composed under frantic time restraints, for the Carnival season in 1817, followed several 1817 triumphs – Cenerentola, La Gazza Ladra and Armida, yet Adelaide had a lukewarm reception – cr...
The Journey to Reims Il viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2023 Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825, for Charles X’s coronation, to promote love, peace, and also Rossini’s French rep...
