Olga Peretyatko and Varduhi Abrahamyan

Rossini Opera Festival 2023 – Adelaide di Borgogna – with Olga Peretyatko, Varduhi Abrahamyan & Riccardo Fassi; directed by Arnaud Bernard; conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta

Adelaide di Borgogna (1817) – rarely seen anywhere beyond the Rossini Opera Festival – here receives its third outing in just seventeen years (previously a 2006 semi-staging, and then a full production in 2011). It’s unsurprising and welcome, then, that Arnaud Bernard takes a different slant on this episode of quite arcane, tenth-century European history, which …

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