The musicologist Vincenzo Borghetti and the superintendent of the Rossini Opera Festival present the important edition and staging of “Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra”, a rare work by the composer born in Pesaro

The “Italian Rooms”, the virtual home of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York directed by Fabio Finotti, an Italianist that hails from Padua, will be enriched beginning Wednesday 29th September 2021 with a new exclusive content in the “Library”: a documentary produced in collaboration with the Rossini Foundation and the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro.

The musicologist Vincenzo Borghetti (University of Verona), who curated the important edition, describes the genesis and the plot of the opera “Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra” by Gioachino Rossini, and clarifies the functions and usefulness of textual criticism and process of how it keeps track of it, to restore it today honoring the music of the past.

The superintendent of the Festival, Ernesto Palacio, taking ispirtation from the same title by Rossini, and having staged a version last August for the Pesaro festival, explains what the usual dynamics are that prelude an opera staging, its creation and the selection of singers, concluding with some previews of the 2022 festival programme.

The two unpublished interviews – exclusively recorded in Pesaro for the Library in the “Italian Rooms’” is set in the famous library of Casa Leopardi in Recanati – with some video contributions from the 2021 edition of the Rossini Opera Festival and that present some noteworthy moments of the opera. Furthermore, the video can be considered a sneak peek of the complete version of Rossini’s work which will be broadcast by RAI5 on Thursday 30 September 2021 at 9.15 PM (CET).