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Rossini: L'occasione fa il ladro / Regazzo, Fogliani Virtuosi Brunensis

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Composer: Rossini, Gioachino
Artist: Fogliani, Virtuosi Brunensis
Released: Dec 10, 2021

L’occasione fa il ladro (‘Opportunity Makes a Thief’) was composed by the young Rossini in just eleven days, working alongside his librettist Luigi Prividali. The tale presents a comedy of multiple confusions in one act. Count Alberto, travelling to marry a fiancée he has yet to meet, leaves an inn with the wrong suitcase. Left holding the Count’s papers and possessions, Don Parmenione audaciously adopts Alberto’s identity intent on taking the bride for himself. Jochen Schönleber’s acclaimed production adapts Rossini’s swift and deftly plotted moral drama to give present-day relevance to Rossini’s exuberant ensemble burletta.

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Rossini: L'occasione fa il ladro / Regazzo, Fogliani Virtuosi Brunensis
Naxos AudioVisual Dec 2021

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Rossini, G.: Italian Girl in Algiers (The) (L'Italiana in Al
Chandos Apr 2009

1 disc

CD
$13.99

Opus Arte

Rossini: L'italiana Algeri / Goryachova, Shi, Esposito, Cossi, Encinar

DVD · 1 disc

$34.99

Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Goryachova, Esposito, Shi, Cassi, Encinar
Released: Aug 26, 2014

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Gioachino Rossini
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI

Isabella - Anna Goryachova
Mustafà - Alex Esposito
Lindoro - Yijie Shi
Taddeo - Mario Cass

Teatro Comunale di Bologna Chorus and Orchestra
José Ramón Encinar, conductor

Davide Livermore, stage director

Recorded live at the Pesaro Festival, August 2013

Bonus:
- The making of L’Italiana in Algeri
- Cast gallery

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: LPCM 2.0 / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, French, German, Korean
Running time: 153 mins
No. of DVDs: 1

Pesaro’s new offering in 2013 was an off-the-wall production of Rossini’s popular comedy, ‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’, presented as a Swinging Sixties, James Bond adventure, set in the desert oil fields of the North African coast. Davide Livermore’s gag-a-minute, helter-skelter romp followed an alarmingly life-like air-crash, which delivered the ‘Italian girl’ from Rome into the clutches of the local oil baron, Mustafa. All three lead singers (Alex Esposito as Mustafa, the high tenor Yijie Shi as the young lover Lindoro, and Anna Goryachova as the agile-voiced mezzo-soprano of the title role) thoroughly distinguished themselves – and the audience roared its approval of the evening’s entertainment.

Recorded live at the Pesaro Festival, August 2013

"Italian bass Alex Esposito commanded our full attention as Mustafà with strong, firm fioratura that raged magnificently when necessary. Mr Esposito in the prime of vocal estate, a spirited, charismatic actor of inextinguishable theatrical energy." Opera Today
"Anyone lucky enough to have seen last year’s ROF Ciro in Babilonia or the 2012 Demetrio e Polibio, will already know the wisdom and wit of Davide Livermore’s Rossini stagings. Here again, he is sure handed. Rossini would have adored it." Seen and Heard International

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Rossini: L'italiana Algeri / Goryachova, Shi, Esposito, Cossi, Encinar
Opus Arte Aug 2014

1 disc

DVD
$34.99

Naxos

Rossini: Complete Piano Music - Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) / Marangoni

CD · 13 discs

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Composer: Rossini, Gioachino
Artist: Alessandro Marangoni
Released: Nov 26, 2021

Rossini drew a line under his hugely successful operatic career at the age of 37 and wrote little until his final years in Paris, where he became renowned for his musical salons. For these he wrote numerous short piano pieces which he jokingly called Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age): sometimes experimental miniatures that can raise a smile or touch the heart, blurring boundaries between the irreverent and the serious. Rossini’s publisher Antonio Pacini considered the composer’s late works as his most illustrious period: ‘what he composes daily is a series of masterpieces that seems as though it will never end.’ Including songs and fascinating novelties, this acclaimed complete edition contains a myriad of rarities and numerous world premiere recordings.

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Rossini: Complete Piano Music - Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) / Marangoni
Naxos Nov 2021

13 discs

CD
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Naxos AudioVisual

Rossini: La Cambiale Di Matrimonio / Bordogna, Rancatore

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Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Orch, Gortsevskaya, Marabelli, Capitanucci, Pirgu, Rancatore, Bordogna
Released: Mar 25, 2008

Gioachino Rossini
LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO

Tobia Mill – Paolo Bordogna
Fanny – Désirée Rancatore
Edoardo Milfort – Saimir Pirgu
Slook – Fabio Maria Capitanucci
Norton – Enrico Maria Marabelli
Clarina – Maria Gortsevskaya

Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento
Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, conductor

Luigi Squarzina, stage director
Giovanni Agostinucci, sets and costumes

Filmed at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, August 2006

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 / Dolby Digital 5.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, Italian
Running time: 83 mins

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Rossini: La Cambiale Di Matrimonio / Bordogna, Rancatore
Naxos AudioVisual Mar 2008

1 disc

DVD
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Marilyn Horne - Rossini Recital / Martin Katz
RCA Jul 2007

1 disc

CD
$17.99

SWR

Rossini: Petite messe solennelle / Huber, Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble

CD · 1 disc

$9.99

Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Mazzarria, Schneidermann, Tarver, Holthaus, Szidon, Metzler, Dorner, Hubert
Released: Jun 14, 2019

This is a re-release of an SWRmusic bestseller. The recording was the very first one of the original version of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, realized using the critical new edition based on Rossini’s autograph score published in 1991 by Carus. Gioachino Rossini's Petite messe solennelle (Little solemn mass) was written in 1863, possibly at the request of Count Alexis Pillet-Will for his wife Louise to whom it is dedicated. The composer, who had retired from composing operas more than 30 years before, described it as "the last of my péchés de vieillesse" (sins of old age). The extended work is a missa solemnis, but Rossini labeled it, not without irony, petite (little). He scored it originally for twelve singers, four of them soloists, two pianos and harmonium. The mass was first performed on 14 March 1864 at the couple's new home in Paris. Rossini later produced an orchestral version, including an additional movement, a setting of the hymn "O salutaris hostia" as a soprano aria. This version of the mass was not performed during his lifetime because he could not obtain permission to perform it with female singers in a church. It was first performed three months after his death, at the Salle Ventadour in Paris by the company of the Théâtre-Italien on 24 February 1869.

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Rossini: Petite messe solennelle / Huber, Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble
SWR Jun 2019

1 disc

CD
$9.99

Dynamic

Rossini: Maometto Secondo / Regazzo, Lepre, Scimone, Et Al

DVD · 2 discs

$36.99

Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Regazzo, Giannatasio, Gemmabella, Mironov, Teatro La Fenice Di Venezia, Scimone, Pizzi
Released: Jan 01, 2011

GIOACHINO ROSSINI: Lorenzo Regazzo; Fedrico Lepre; Carmen Giannatasio; Maxim Mironov; Anna Rita Gemmabella; Nicola Marchesini; Teatro La Fenice di Venzia/Caludio Scimone; NTSC All Region; dolby Digital; DTS, Linear PCM 2.0; color; 16:9; Aprox. 174 mins. GIOACHINO ROSSINI: Maometto Secondo.

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Rossini: Maometto Secondo / Regazzo, Lepre, Scimone, Et Al
Dynamic Jan 2011

2 discs

DVD
$36.99

Naxos

Rossini: Complete Overtures Vol 1 / Benda, Prague Sinfonia

CD · 1 disc

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Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Benda
Released: Oct 30, 2012

Rossini wrote some of music’s most masterful and lovable operas. His gift for comic and tragic forms was matched by a relish for characterisation, qualities that are always evident in his overtures. La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is perhaps the most famous, one of the world’s most popular concert openers. But in Otello he reveals his more complex turns of phrase and in Le siège de Corinthe the writing is dramatic and colourful. The overture for Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra was used again a year later by Rossini for Il barbiere di Siviglia. This is the first of four discs of the complete Rossini Overtures.

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Rossini: Complete Overtures Vol 1 / Benda, Prague Sinfonia
Naxos Oct 2012

1 disc

CD
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Dynamic

Rossini: Bianca e Falliero / Bayo, Meli, Lepore

DVD · 2 discs

$36.99

Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Bayo, Barcellona, Meli, Lepore, Orquesta Sinfónica De Galicia, Palumbo, Martin
Released: Jan 01, 2011

GIOACHINO ROSSINI: Maria Bayo; Daniela Barcellona; Francesco Meli; Carlo Lepore; Prague Chamber Choir; Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia/Renato Palumbo;Jean-Louis Martinoty, director; NTSC All Region; DTS 5.1; PCM Sterio 2.0; Color; 16:9; 183 mins; Subtitled in Italian, English, Fr GIOACHINO ROSSINI: Bianca e Falliero.

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Rossini: Bianca e Falliero / Bayo, Meli, Lepore
Dynamic Jan 2011

2 discs

DVD
$36.99

Dynamic

Rossini: Armida / Zedda, Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Opera Vlaanderen [Blu-ray]

Blu-Ray · 1 disc

$36.99

Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Zedda, Hansen, Purkrabek, Romeu, Scala, Mcpherson, Schmunck, Bernad, Smith
Released: Jan 13, 2017

This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players.

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Opera Vlaanderen of Antwerp continues its Rossini Cycle under the musical direction of conductor Alberto Zedda (87), with the rarely performed opera Armida. Armida is clearly a tenor opera par excellence, as we have four tenors here among the main roles. Enea Scala , Robert McPherson, Dario Schmunck and the young Adam Smith. Director Mariame Clément and her usual set designer Julia Hansen will also return to Opera Vlaanderen after the successfull Giasone by Cavalli released by Dynamic. They are now taking a critical look at the world of the Crusaders. Clément sees Armida as the incarnation of the concept of ‘love’, which in itself is magic and for which noble and heroic knightly ideals are cast aside. However, it is a love that turns into a destructive frenzy.

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Rossini: Armida / Zedda, Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Opera Vlaanderen [Blu-ray]
Dynamic Jan 2017

1 disc

Blu-Ray
$36.99

Rossini, Suppé: Overtures / Bernstein, Ny Philharmonic
CBS Masterworks Jun 2007

1 disc

CD
$17.99

Naxos AudioVisual

Rossini: The Curious Misunderstanding [Blu-ray]

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Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Virtuosi Brunensis
Released: Oct 15, 2021

Also available on standard DVD

Rossini wrote L’equivoco stravagante (‘The Curious Misunderstanding’), his first full-length opera, when he was only 19 years old. As its title suggests, the plot of this dramma giocoso offers a panoply of absurdist stagecraft with one character being led to believe that the work’s heroine is in fact a castrato trying to avoid military service. Full of his trademark buffo humour, melodious and musically buoyant, the opera ran foul of the censors and was swiftly banned, which accounts for its rarity in performances and recordings. The new edition of the score used in this production corrects numerous previous errors.

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Rossini: The Curious Misunderstanding [Blu-ray]
Naxos AudioVisual Oct 2021

1 disc

Blu-Ray
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Rossini: Six Wind Quartets / Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Sony Masterworks Sep 2010

1 disc

CD
$17.99

Naxos AudioVisual

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

DVD · 1 disc

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Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Sempey, Trottmann, Angelini, Kalman, Gleadow, Vestri, Le Cercle De L'Harmonie, Rhorer
Released: Sep 13, 2019

Also available on Blu-ray

Rossini’s comic masterpiece The Barber of Seville was based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s French play Le Barbier de Séville and is the ultimate opera buffa. The score is a compendium of the composer’s wittiest and most brilliant writing, and includes the famous entrance aria Largo al factotum and a raft of superbly dynamic ensembles. This vibrant and youthful production features Florian Sempey, one of the world’s best Figaros, the ‘Rossini tenor’ Michele Angelini, vivacious and critically admired Catherine Trottmann, and the award-winning team of acclaimed director Laurent Pelly and conductor Jérémie Rhorer who directs his spirited period ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie.

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The cast are in modern dress but the interaction of characters is so forceful as to sweep away any lurking objections. Add to this some very fine singing, particularly from Michele Angelini’s glorious high tenor as Almaviva, and there is a great deal here to admire and enjoy.

– Lark Reviews

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Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Naxos AudioVisual Sep 2019

1 disc

DVD
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Tactus

Rossini: Quartets for Flute & Strings / Guidetti, Simoncini, Comuzzi

CD · 1 disc

$21.99

Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Artist: Luca, Alessandro, Simoncini, Nicola, Simoncini, Demetrio, Guidetti, Comuzzi
Released: Oct 07, 2022

Although now Rossini is remembered for his operatic production, his career had begun as a composer of chamber music. In 1804 the 12-year-old Gioachino was invited to spend the summer in the villa of his friend Agostino Triossi in Conventello. This rich landowner, who was an amateur double-bass player, was in the habit of organising concerts and musical gatherings: Rossini composed many instrumental pieces for him. The "Sei sonate a quattro for two violins, cello and double-bass" were composed for one of these occasions.

As Rossini himself related, “They are six horrible sonatas, composed by me during a holiday near Ravenna, in the house of my friend and patron Agostino Triossi, at a more than childish age, when I had not even had a single accompaniment lesson, and the whole thing was composed and copied in three days and performed dreadfully by Triossi, double-bass, Morini (his cousin) first violin, his brother, cello, and the second violin was me, who, to own the truth, was the least dreadful.”

We must not be misled by such a negative opinion. These sonatas, though elementary from a formal point of view, are genuine and quite inspired: the contrast between the brilliant passages and the lyrical/sentimental ones already reveals what a skillful opera composer Rossini was to become.

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Rossini: Quartets for Flute & Strings / Guidetti, Simoncini, Comuzzi
Tactus Oct 2022

1 disc

CD
$21.99

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IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
Teldec Mar 2011

2 discs

CD
~~$20.99~~ $10.49

Rossini, G.: Soirees Musicales (Les)
Nimbus Jul 2004

1 disc

CD
$20.99

Dynamic

Rossini Buffo - Collector's Box Set

DVD · 9 discs

$64.99

Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Various
Released: Jan 22, 2021

Rossini had a truly explosive effect when, at the age of eighteen, his comic one-act farce La cambiale di matrimonio was staged at the San Moisé theatre in Venice, on the evening of November 3rd, 1810. From that moment, Rossini’s career would be a series of masterpieces, with triumphs and flops. It was in the comic genre that he achieved his greatest successes, with works such as L’Italiana in Algeri (1813), Il Turco in Italia (1814), Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816), and Cenerentola in 1817, which was Rossini’s last great comic work in the traditional sense. Between 1817 and 1819, year of that Guillaume Tell that prematurely cut short his operatic career, Rossini composed fifteen serious operas and only three comic ones; but he had already given his best in his incomparable youth, with the four incredible masterpieces that are in this box set. In this release DYNAMIC assembles some of the most famous opera buffa by Rossini, played by great performers, conductors and directors, including some rarely performed works such La Gazzetta, L’Equivoco stravagante, La Cambiale di matrimonio.

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Rossini Buffo - Collector's Box Set
Dynamic Jan 2021

9 discs

DVD
$64.99

Naxos AudioVisual

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie [Blu-ray]

Blu-Ray · 1 disc

$34.99

Composer: ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
Artist: Sempey, Trottmann, Angelini, Kalman, Gleadow, Vestri, Le Cercle De L'Harmonie, Rhorer
Released: Sep 13, 2019

This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players.

Also available on standard DVD

Rossini’s comic masterpiece The Barber of Seville was based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s French play Le Barbier de Séville and is the ultimate opera buffa. The score is a compendium of the composer’s wittiest and most brilliant writing, and includes the famous entrance aria Largo al factotum and a raft of superbly dynamic ensembles. This vibrant and youthful production features Florian Sempey, one of the world’s best Figaros, the ‘Rossini tenor’ Michele Angelini, vivacious and critically admired Catherine Trottmann, and the award-winning team of acclaimed director Laurent Pelly and conductor Jérémie Rhorer who directs his spirited period ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie.

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REVIEW:

The cast are in modern dress but the interaction of characters is so forceful as to sweep away any lurking objections. Add to this some very fine singing, particularly from Michele Angelini’s glorious high tenor as Almaviva, and there is a great deal here to admire and enjoy.

– Lark Reviews

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Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie [Blu-ray]
Naxos AudioVisual Sep 2019

1 disc

Blu-Ray
$34.99