Il viaggio a Reims Pesaro 2023 Tamar Otanadze, Seray Pinar, Miyoung Lee, Sabrina Gárdez
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro
- Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
- Libretto: Luigi Balochi Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Sperimentale, Pesaro, Rossini Opera Festival
- Recorded: August 16, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Tamar Otanadze, Seray Pinar, Miyoung Lee, Sabrina Gárdez, Paolo Nevi, Pietro Adaíni, Alberto Comes, Eduardo Martinez, Valerio Morelli, William Kyle, Omar Cepparolli, Michele Galbiati
- Conductor: ANDREA FOTI
- Orchestra: FILARMONICA GIOACHINO ROSSINI
- Stage Director: EMILIO SAGI, MATTEO ANSELMI
- Costume Designer: PEPA OJANGUREN
- Lighting Designer: FABIO ROSSI
Information about the Recording
- Published by: rossinioperafestival, OperaVision
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, itsubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L’albergo del giglio d’oro (The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Fleur-de-lis) is an operatic dramma giocoso, originally performed in three acts, by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on Corinne ou l’Italie by Germaine de Staël.
Rossini’s last opera in the Italian language (all of his later works were in French) premiered under the title Le voyage à Reims, ou l’Hôtel du Lys-d’Or. It was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X in Reims in 1825 and has been acclaimed as one of Rossini’s finest compositions. A demanding work, it requires 14 soloists (three sopranos, one contralto, two tenors, four baritones, and four basses). At its premiere, it was sung by the greatest voices of the day.
Since the opera was written for a specific occasion, with a plot about European aristocrats, officers – and one poetess – en route to join in the French coronation festivities that the opera itself was composed for, Rossini never intended it to have a life beyond a few performances in Paris. He later re-used about half of the music in Le comte Ory.
Il viaggio a Reims does not have an overture. Its so-called overture, derived from a set of dances in Le siège de Corinthe (1826), one of which Rossini had reworked from the dances in the finale to Il viaggio a Reims, is a twentieth-century invention or an erroneous attribution. It was published in Milan, in 1938, in a revision by Giuseppe Piccioli, which was first performed in the Teatro alla Scala, on 5 November 1938, conducted by Richard Strauss. It was later also recorded repeatedly as the alleged overture of Il viaggio a Reims, until it was finally possible to reconstruct the original score of the opera. The attributed overture remains one of Rossini’s most recorded works.
Quoted from Wikipedia