en it Home Company Catalog Critical Editions News Sheet music for sale Historical Archive Rossini Opera Festival 2014 Rossini's critical editions. History, the ROF. When from 10/08/2014 at 20:00 to 22/08/2014 at 23:00 Where is it Pesaro Add the event to the calendar vCal iCal The beginning of the monumental critical edition of Gioachino Rossini's works begins at the beginning of 1970, by the Rossini Foundation of Pesaro in collaboration with Casa Ricordi. The publication of each score is preceded and accompanied by an accurate study of the compositional practice of the author and of the executive one of his first performers, as well as an in-depth cataloging of the sources. This allowed the reconstruction of the 'authentic' version (ie desired or controlled by the author) of the various works. This meticulous work has made it possible to rediscover some titles (lost in time) and to recognize the centrality, in Rossini's theatrical production, of serious works and even more those of the Neapolitan period. The critical edition, therefore, makes possible the execution of the various authentic versions and, with a special apparatus, informs about all the textual problems and the relative solutions proposed. All this philological material, made available to conductors and singers, has led in the last twenty years to a considerable increase in performances of the Rossinian repertoire, even in the most prestigious theaters in the world. In Pesaro, in the 80s the Rossini Opera Festival was born, wanted by the municipality and dedicated to the music of Gioachino Rossini. Making use of the scientific collaboration of the Rossini Foundation, each year the ROF presents the world premiere of at least one title in critical editions. After having represented, in recent years, the first three series operas by Rossini, Ciro in Babilonia, Demetrio and Polibio, Tancredi, the 2014 edition of the Rossini Opera Festival (10 - 22 August) offers the public the new critical edition of Aureliano in Palmira. Will Crutchfield, in the dual role of curator of the edition and conductor, will conduct the G. Rossini Symphony Orchestra at the Rossini Theater on 12 August. Directed by Mario Martone. Composed for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with libretto by Felice Romani, Aureliano in Palmira (the only work by Rossini written for a castrato: the famous Giovanni Battista Velluti, interpreter of the role of Arsace) was baptized on December 26, 1813. Respect in Tancredi, Aureliano in Palmira is a "classical" work, more complex and articulated both from the point of view of the vicissitudes of the protagonists and of the voluminous musical structures: everything speaks to us of a great, ambitious, new work. At the ROF, on August 15th, the world premiere of The Six Sonatas a quattro, composed by Rossini in 1804 for a curious string quartet, including 2 violins, cello and double bass, will also be presented. The edition of the Rossini Foundation, edited by Matteo Guggioli, presents a reconstructed text starting from the copy signed by Rossini, kept at the Library of Congress in Washington. The performance of the ROF will feature Salvatore Accardo and Laura Gorna (Vl I and Vl II), Cecilia Radic (cello), Franco Petracchi (double bass). Learn more about this event ... Copyright © 1997 - 2012 Casa Ricordi srl