Ermione

Composer: Rossini, Gioachino

Librettist/Text Author: Tottola, Andrea Leone

Conductor: Abbado, Roberto

Orchestra: Bologna Teatro Comunale Orchestra

Chorus: Prague Chamber Chorus

Chorus Master: Brych, Jaroslav

Chorus: Bologna Teatro Comunale Chorus

Chorus Master: Brych, Jaroslav

Andromaca: Pizzolato, Marianna

Attalo: Botta, Riccardo

Cefisa: Faus, Cristina

Cleone: Samoylova, Irina

Ermione: Ganassi, Sonia

Fenicio: Ulivieri, Nicola

Oreste: Siragusa, Antonino

Pilade: Bothmer, Ferdinand von

Pirro: Kunde, Gregory

Set Designer: Gregori, Graziano

Costume Designer: Teti, Carla

Stage Director: Abbado, Daniele

Television Director: Mancini, Tiziano

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Festival: Rossini Opera Festival

Venue: Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro

Playing Time: 02:22:48

Catalogue Number: 33609

UPC: 8007144336097

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Ermione is an opera of string colours, dominated by violent, shifting feelings, with passages of remarkable dramatic intensity and vivid pathos, rendered with masterly skill by the performers in this edition from the Rossini Opera Festival. The subject was taken from Jean-Baptiste Racine's tragedy Andromaque (1667) and the libretto was written by prolific librettist Andrea Leone Tottola. It premiered at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples on 27th March 1819 but was not a success for it was withdrawn after only seven performances until it was revived in concert form in Sienna on 22nd August 1987.