DVD + Blu-Ray:
Le Siège de Corinthe

Rossini Opera Festival presents Le Siège de Corinthe staged by Carlus Padrissa with a well-cohesive cast and RAI orchestra conducted by Roberto Abbado.

When Rossini’s opera Le Siège de Corinthe was premiered in 1826 in Paris it became a huge success all over Europe. The Rossini Opera Festival presents the opera in a new production from Carlus Padrissa of the Barcelona collective La Fura dels Baus, “which here has one of its most interesting shows” (connessiallopera.it). Artisticly “Roberto Abbado holds the ranks excellently and supports a well-cohesive and balanced cast” (L’ape musicale) “where bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni growled fearsomely as Sultan Mahomet, tenor Sergey Romanovsky as Néoclès matched a warm tone with pinging top notes, and tenor John Irvin was self-assured as Cléomène, but soprano Nino Machaidze as Pamyra thrilled most of all, as she purred effortlessly through pyrotechnic coloratura” (Financial Times).

Genre Opera
Composer Gioachino Rossini
Stage Director Carlus Padrissa (La Fura dels Baus)
Conductor Roberto Abbado
Orchestra / Band Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai
Soloist Luca Pisaroni, John Irvin, Nino Machaidze, Sergey Romanovsky
Choir Coro del Teatro Ventidio Basso
Duration 173’
Recording location Adriatic Arena, Pesaro (IT)
Production year 2017
Production Company A production of Delirica Studio in co-production with Rossini Opera Festival in cooperation with Unitel