Rossini: Overtures Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna & Michele Mariotti

• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868): La scala di seta:
• 1 La scala di seta: Overture 05:57
• Tancredi:
• 2 Tancredi: Overture 06:00
• L'italiana in Algeri:
• 3 L'italiana in Algeri: Overture 08:09
• Il barbiere di Siviglia:
• 4 Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture 06:53
• La gazza ladra:
• 5 La gazza ladra: Overture 09:51
• Matilde di Shabran:
• 6 Matilde di Shabran: Overture 09:39
• Semiramide:
• 7 Semiramide: Overture 12:35
• Le siège de Corinthe:
• 8 Le siège de Corinthe: Overture 09:36
• Guillaume Tell:
• 9 Guillaume Tell: Overture 12:11
• Total Runtime 01:20:51

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ELEGANT, EXHILARATING, ELECTRIFYING! From the moment they were performed, Gioachino Rossini’s overtures have enjoyed the status of colourful, elegant orchestral showpieces. With their sweet cantilene, their rich harmonies, their brilliant orchestration, and their powerful and exciting rhythmic drive, these overtures encapsulate all that was modern, exhilarating and electrifying in Rossini’s music, yet maintain their freshness and attraction to modern audiences. This album features a collection of Rossini overtures, taken from less well-known operas such as La Scala di seta, Tancredi, La gazza ladra, Matilde di Shabran and Semiramide, as well as from the classic comic operas L’italiana in Algeri and Il barbiere di Siviglia, concluding with the preludes to Rossini’s French operas Le siege de Corinthe and Guillaume Tell, in which the composer explored musical Romanticism.

The overtures are performed by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, which has played a seminal role in the Rossini renaissance of the last three decades. The orchestra is led by its Musical Director Michele Mariotti. Being born in Rossini’s native town Pesaro, Mariotti cherishes a life-long affinity with the city’s most famous son, and is commonly considered as one of the outstanding Rossini conductors of his age. He frequently works with the world’s most prestigious opera houses.

Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Michele Mariotti, conductor

Michele Mariotti
Musical Director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna since 2014, Michele Mariotti was born in Pesaro. Following his classical studies, he obtained a degree in music composition at the Rossini Conservatoire in Pesaro and a degree in orchestra conducting at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese with full marks and honor under the guidance of Donato Renzetti.

In September 2005 he made is operatic debut conducting Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia in Salerno, Italy. In November 2007 he has conducted Simon Boccanegra for the opening of the season 2007/2008 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Following the success of such production, he was nominated Principal Conductor of Bologna’s Orchestra del Teatro Comunale (from 2008 to 2014), where he has to date conducted I puritani, La gazza ladra, Idomeneo, Carmen, Risorgimento and Il prigioniero, La cenerentola, La traviata, Le nozze di Figaro, Norma, Nabucco, Così fan tutte, Guillaume Tell, Un ballo in maschera, Die Zauberflöte, Attila, Werther, La voix humaine/Cavalleria rusticana, Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s and Mozart’s Requiem and numerous concerts. He has led Bologna’s Chorus and Orchestra in Tokyo (I puritani and Carmen), in Moscow and Turin for the opening season concert of “Lingotto Musica”.With the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna he has recorded CDs with Juan Diego Flórez under Decca and Nino Machaidze under Sony.

He has conducted at La Scala in Milan, at Turin’s Teatro Regio, at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, at Teatro Comunale in Florence, at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival, at Verdi’s Festival in Parma, at the Sferisterio in Macerata, at New York’s Met, at London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden, at Paris Opéra, at Chicago’s Lyric Opera, at Los Angeles Opera, at Wexford’s Festival (Don Gregorio) and at Wallonie Opera, among others.

He has conducted concerts with Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Orchestre National de France, Münchner Symphoniker, Essener Philharmoniker, Turin’s Rai National Symphony Orchestra, Parma’s Toscanini Orchestra, Milan’s I Pomeriggi Musicali,Orchestra dell’Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, at Turin’s Auditorium del Lingotto, at the Perelada Festival, at Barcelona’s Liceu, at Madrid’s Teatro Real, at the Théâtredes Champs-Elysées in Paris and at the Radio France Festival in Montpellier.

From 2016 Mariotti has been protagonist, with success, of operas such as I due Foscari at Milan’s La Scala, La traviata at Paris Opéra, Les Huguenots at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, Semiramide at Bavarian State Opera. Hereturned in Naples with the Orchestra of Teatro San Carlo, in Bozen with the Orchestra Haydn, in Münich with the Münchner Symphoniker and on the podium of the Orchestre National de France at the Saint-Denis Festival.

In the summer/fall 2017 he has conducted I due Foscari at the Salzburg Festival, La forza del destino at De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam and Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House in London. Among his recent 2018 engagements are Orphée et Euridice at La Scala in Milan, I Lombardi alla prima crociata at Turin’s Teatro Regio, La donna del lago at Wallonie Opéra. Among his future engagements, he will be leading Don Giovanni in Bologna, new productions of Les Huguenots and La traviata in Paris, concerts in Italy with the Orchestra Haydn, in Copenhagen with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, in Bamberg with the Bamberger Symphoniker, a tour in the UK with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2019 he will debut on the podium of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Filarmonica della Scala.

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