Rossini: La Gazzetta

Release Date: 2005-07-03

Overview: An opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763. The opera satirizes the influence of newspapers on people's lives. There is critical disagreement as to its success, although the New England Conservatory's notes for their April 2013 production state that the opera "was an immediate hit, and showed Rossini at his comic best."

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Cinzia Forte

as Lisetta

Bruno Praticò

as Don Pomponio

Pietro Spagnoli

as Filippo

Charles Workman

as Alberto

Agata Bienkowska

as Madame La Rose