Stage Access Brings the Best of the Rossini Opera Festival to Streaming, With18 Productions from the Famed Annual Event

From the Most Renowned and Popular Music Ever Written to
Rarely Performed Works, Stage Access Brings a World of Opera to Streaming

NEW YORK (January 24, 2023) – Called “the world’s most seductively charming annual opera event” by the New York Times, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many opera and classical music lovers.

Now, Stage Access makes it possible to thrill to this extraordinary event anywhere, anytime, by bringing together 18 of the most memorable operas and concerts from more than a decade of the renowned festival – more than 43 hours of awe-inspiring productions from the past 13 years.

On Thursday (January 26), Stage Access debuts a new introduction to the acclaimed festival by Emmy® and Tony Award-winning performer Kelsey Grammer, making it possible to enjoy the incredible sights and sounds of the Rossini Opera Festival on any streaming device in the U.S. and Canada.

The Stage Access collection from the Rossini Opera Festival covers wide and fertile creative ground – from the stirring and astonishingly familiar strains of the overture to the lavish and stirring Guillaume Tell (more commonly referred to as the “William Tell Overture” – one of the most popular pieces of music ever written); to Rossini’s first opera, 1810’s one-act La Cambiale di Matrimonio; to the first full-length Rossini opera, Demetrio e Polibio. Among the presentations are also the rarely produced Adelaide di Borgogna, as seen at the 2011 Rossini Opera Festival, and Zelmira, from the 2009 festival.

As is the hallmark of the Rossini Opera Festival, the productions are extravagant, memorable and unique – including the 1960s “mod” setting of L’Italiana in Algeri to the lavish, art-nouveau style of Ciro in Babilonia.

“The productions, the history and the lasting legacy of Gioachino Rossini are all on remarkable display, and we’re enormously proud to showcase what is a feast for your eyes and ears from this unique festival in Rossini’s hometown,” said Tripp Hornick, COO of Stage Access. “Every connoisseur of classical music and fan of opera will find something fascinating here.”

The Stage Access collection also includes the festival’s 40th anniversary gala concert, which brings together star tenor Juan Diego Flórez, American tenor Lawrence Brownlee, Italian baritone Nicola Alaimo, Russian mezzo-soprano Anna Goryachava, and American soprano Angela Meade, all under the direction of Carlo Rizzi and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI.

Here is the full list of Rossini Opera Festival productions now available exclusively on Stage Access in the U.S. and Canada:

·        La Scala di Seta (presented in 2009)

·        Zelmira (2009)

·        Le Comte Ory (2009)

·        Demetrio e Polibio (2010)

·        Sigismondo (2010)

·        Adelaide di Borgogna (2011)

·        Mosè in Egitto (2011)

·        Ciro in Babilonia (2012)

·        Il Signor Bruschino (2012)

·        Matilde di Shabran (2012)

·        Guillaume Tell (2013)

·        L’Italiana in Algeri (2013)

·        Aureliano in Palmira (2014)

·        La Gazetta (2015)

·        Ricciardo e Zoraide (2018)

·        L’Equivoco Stravagante (2019)

·        Rossini Opera Festival 40th Anniversary Gala (2019)

·        La Cambiale de Matrimonio (2020)

Stage Access offers a free seven-day trial to all new viewers. Monthly, unlimited streaming memberships are just $7.99, or arts enthusiasts can subscribe for a full year for just $69.99. Stage Access is available in the U.S. and Canada across every major streaming platform: online, iOS, Android, AppleTV, Amazon Fire and Roku.

Founded by hedge-fund innovator Bruce H. Lipnick, Stage Access is defining the performing arts in the digital era as the only company in North America that produces, distributes and licenses classical arts programming across multiple platforms. In its mission of Bringing the Stage to You®, Stage Access also produces acclaimed original programs, including Yo-Yo Ma: Six Solo Bach Cello Suites from the Odeon, Athens; and The 3 Tenors: From Caracalla to the World – The 30th Anniversary Documentary. In addition, Stage Access has a theatrical relationship with IMAX®, with whom it has produced and will release Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing - Paris and Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing - Venice in 2023.

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