Rossini: Le Siège de Corinthe from Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro

Luca Pisaroni, John Irvin, Nino Machaidze, Sergey Romanovsky, Coro del Teatro Ventidio Basso
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, conducted by Roberto Abbado
staged by Carlus Padrissa (La Fura dels Baus)
When Rossini’s opera Le Siège de Corinthe was premiered in 1826 in Paris it became a huge success all over Europe. The Rossini Opera Festival presents the opera in a new production from Carlus Padrissa of the Barcelona collective La Fura dels Baus, “which here has one of its most interesting shows” (connessiallopera.it). Artisticly “Roberto Abbado holds the ranks excellently and supports a well-cohesive and balanced cast” (L’ape musicale) “where bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni growled fearsomely as Sultan Mahomet, tenor Sergey Romanovsky as Néoclès matched a warm tone with pinging top notes, and tenor John Irvin was self-assured as Cléomène, but soprano Nino Machaidze as Pamyra thrilled most of all, as she purred effortlessly through pyrotechnic coloratura” (Financial Times).
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[@ne227]

Yikes. No wonder it took them more than 6 years to release this. Hardly any performances are worth releasing these days. Same with the recent Michieletto La Donna del Lago release - took them years to release this POS.

[@ronronizetti2534]

May have helped (a bit) had Machezide been cast in the contralto version as Nicole and a more agile soprano in the lead. However one can see this staging wouldn’t exactly inspire great singing. I won’t discredit the singers, but they were poorly cast