Rossini - La Gazzetta

Discover Rossini's opera La Gazzetta, performed by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the direction of the young Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola and presented in 2015 as part of the Rossini Opera Festival. German radio Deutschlandfunk hailed the management of Mazzola, whom she called "one of the most gifted artists of his generation, he is not only a faithful interpreter of the score, he sends the orchestra of the Teatro di Bologna - and his audience too - into a veritable Rossini delirium". The director Marco Carniti stages this colorful production in the Paris of the 1950s to judiciously distil Rossini's ironic social criticism. Nicola Alaimo embodies the new and rich Don Pomponio Storione in a performance that, according to the Huffington Post: "he has confirmed his admirable dramatic qualities, with evidence of an unsuspected physical agility". (Unitel Classica)