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How The Rossini Renaissance Sparked From A Beachfront Festival To The World

MUSIC Posted: August 25, 2019 8:30 am

The Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy, may never be a Salzburg, but it sure changed Rossini’s reputation. Most of the composer’s “operas were long dormant. For much of the 20th century, Rossini had become a one-opera composer, known solely for his comedy The Barber of Seville.” Then the Pesaro festival ramped up, pursuing “the scholarly rediscovery of even Rossini’s most obscure compositions, together with a dedication to teaching the magnificent fireworks of Rossinian style.” – The New York Times

MUSIC Published: 08.23.19

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 08.23.19

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