Concert in memory of Charles X with music by Gioachino Rossini

Another collaboration celebrating young talent comes in the form of this unusually named concert performed by the young soloists from the Rossini Academy and from Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival. This collaboration between the most famous and prestigious institutions to carry the composers name will stage their production of Il viaggio a Reims (‘The Journey to Reims’) in 2025 and the performance is already fixed in the playbill for the European Cultural Capital festivities. It will also mark both the bicentenary of the opera (one of Rossini’s most mature and modern works) and the coronation of Charles X of Borbone, the last King of France who died in Palazzo dei Coronini in 1836.

Despite their young age, the three soloists (mezzosoprano, baritone, and tenor) have both a high level of musical education behind them and a great deal of experience on stage in principal roles from Rossini and Mozart’s repertoire. The Russian pianist Alexey Yakimov will accompany them on the piano – though he equally boasts a diverse career as an orchestral conductor, bass singer, singing instructor, and artistic producer.

Soloists: Marta Pluda, Gianni Giuga, Victor Jimenez
Piano: Alexey Yakimov

In collaboration with the Rossini Foundation Opera Festival

PROGRAMME
Gioachino Rossini
‘Tutto è deserto’, from La Cenerentola (‘Cinderella’)
‘Come un’ape ne’ giorni d’aprile’, from La Cenerentola (‘Cinderella’)
‘Si, ritrovarla io giuro’, from La Cenerentola (‘Cinderella’)
‘Nacqui all’affanno e al pianto’, from La Cenerentola (‘Cinderella’)
‘Languir per una bella’ from L’Italiana in Algeri (‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’)
‘Cruda sorte’, from L’Italiana in Algeri (‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’)
‘Ho un gran peso sulla testa’, from L’Italiana in Algeri (‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’)
‘Amici, in ogni evento’, from L’Italiana in Algeri (‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’)
‘A un dottor della mia sorte’, from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (‘The Barber of Seville’)
‘Largo al factotum’, from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (‘The Barber of Seville’)
‘Ah! qual colpo inaspettato’ from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (‘The Barber of Seville’)

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Sunday 2^nd July, 9.00pm
Palazzo Coronini Cronberg, Gorizia

In case of bad weather: Kulturni center Lojze Bratuž

Tickets: € 12