Rossini - Le siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
Auditorium Scavolini, Pesaro, Friday June 21 2026 Conductor: Carlo Rizzi. Production: Davide Livermore. Sets: Eleonora Peronetti, Paolo Gep Cucco, Davide Livermore. Video: D-Wok. Costumes: Gianluca Falaschi. Choreography: Erika Rombaldoni. Lighting: Nicolas Bovey. Mahomet II: Adrian Sâmpetrean. Cléomène: Matteo Roma. Pamyra: Vasilisa Berzhanskaya. Néoclès: Maxim Mironov. Hiéros: Simón Orfila. Adraste: Tianxuefei Sun. Omar: Giuseppe De Luca. I smène: Anna-Doris Capitelli. Chorus of the Ventidio Basso theatre. Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra. Photos: Amati Bacciardi While I’ve no intention of teaching granny to suck eggs, I think any article about Le siège de Corinthe is bound to include at least something about the history - or vicissitudes, you might say - of the work. Those of you who already know all about Corinthian egg-sucking can just skip to the performance itself. So (1)… Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe premiered in Paris in October 1826 and to celebrate, the Rossini Opera ...