La gazzetta

Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, Italy

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Important Info

Festival: Rossini Opera Festival 2022

Type: Opera

City: Pesaro, Italy

Starts at: 20:00

Acts: 2

Intervals: 1

Duration: 2h 55min

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Festival

Rossini Opera Festival 2022

The 43rd ROF was held from August 9th to 21st, and featured two new productions (Le Comte Ory and Otello), the revival of La gazzetta and the aforementioned Il viaggio a Reims, three opera-symphonic concerts, two Belcanto Concerts, a Concert from the Balcony of Casa Rossini, the return of Rossinimania with the musical entertainment Il sogno dell'orso, conceived by Sergio Ragni, and the celebratory Gala Tra rondò e tournedos, for Pier Luigi Pizzi's 40th anniversary at the ROF.

Overview

La gazzetta, a dramma per musica in two acts to a libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, was first produced at the Teatro de’ Fiorentini, Naples, on the 26th September 1816. The autograph score is in the library of the Conservatorio, Naples, while the autograph score of the Quintetto was recently discovered at the Conservatorio, Palermo.

The story is based on a play by Carlo Goldoni written in 1763 during his stay in Paris, entitled Il matrimonio per concorso [Marriage by competition]. After various adventures, two Italian merchants (Pandolfo and Anselmo), who were hoping to marry off their daughters (Lisetta and Doralice) advantageously, end up by having to accept marriage for love. Right from the start Il matrimonio per concorso captured the attention of the musical theatre and numerous operas were composed on the story; in particular, Giuseppe Mosca’s opera Avviso al pubblico (libretto by Gaetano Rossi, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1814) may have influenced La gazzetta and it could have been Rossini himself who suggested this subject to the Neapolitan librettist Giuseppe Palomba.

Production 2015, restaged

History

Premiere of this production: 24 September 1816, Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples

La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso (The Newspaper, or The Marriage Contest) is an opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763. The opera satirizes the influence of newspapers on people's lives. There is critical disagreement as to its success, although the New England Conservatory's notes for their April 2013 production state that the opera "was an immediate hit, and showed Rossini at his comic best."

Synopsis

Time: 18th century
Place: Paris

The opera tells the story of a pretentious Neapolitan, Don Pomponio Storione, who travels the world in search of a husband for his daughter, putting ads in the newspapers. He arrives in a city, and after a series of ridiculously inadequate suitors, such as the Quaker Monsù Traversen or the waiter at the hotel, who usually end up beating poor Pomponio, he finally resigns to let his daughter marry her lover, the only suitor he seems to consider inappropriate.

Venue Info

Teatro Rossini - Pesaro
Piazza Lazzarini, 1

Teatro Rossini is the name of an opera house in Pesaro, Italy that serves as a venue for the Rossini Opera Festival. Built as the Teatro Nuovo (on the site of the original 1637 Teatro del Sole), it was inaugurated on 10 June 1818 with a performance of Gioacchino Rossini's La gazza ladra conducted by the composer in the town of his birth. It seats 860, with an auditorium designed in the classic horseshoe shape with four tiers of boxes plus the gallery.

The theatre took its present name in the composer's honour in 1854.

After a 1930 earthquake it required structural renovations. It re-opened in August 1934 with a performance of Guglielmo Tell. In 1966, however, cracks in the walls and decaying woodwork led to its being declared unsafe, and it was closed for 14 years. It re-opened again on 6 April 1980, the same year as the first Rossini Opera Festival took place. Since then it has been the home of the annual festival, which is held in August. Additional renovations took place in 2002.

Important Info

Festival: Rossini Opera Festival 2022

Type: Opera

City: Pesaro, Italy

Starts at: 20:00

Acts: 2

Intervals: 1

Duration: 2h 55min

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