- Rossini Opera Festival
Juan Diego Flórez | Andrzej Filonczyk | Julie Fuchs | Maria Kataeva
Recorded
The Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) is an international music festival held in August of each year in the city of Pesaro in Italy, the birthplace of the composer Gioachino Rossini. Its aim, in addition to studying the musical heritage of the composer, is to revive and perform his works in a unique setting that allows collaboration of scholars, artists, and audience.
Performances are given in the Teatro Rossini and, since 1988, the modified sports arena (Palasport) which holds 1,500, as well as, since 2006, the Vitrifigo Arena, with over 10,000. Since 2000 another venue, the Teatro Sperimentale, offers the opportunity to present smaller-scale or minor works by contemporaries of Rossini.