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| [ Data articol: 2026-08-23 ] [ Din localitatea Pesaro ] [ Tara Italia ]
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 The Stabat Mater, conducted by Ramón Tebar, will close the 47th edition of the Rossini Opera Festival tomorrow evening at 8:30 pm at the Auditorium Scavolini. The Festival’s founding institutions are the Municipality of Pesaro, Intesa Sanpaolo and the Fondazione Scavolini. The 2026 edition is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Pesaro, the Marche Region, Intesa Sanpaolo, idealista, Gruppo Hera, Marche Multiservizi, EBWorld and the Fondazione Meuccia Severi.
The Festival’s management presented the results of the 2026 edition at the Teatro Rossini, in the presence of the entire Rossini Opera Festival staff.
The programme comprised 42 events, including performances and talks, and recorded 16, 350 attendances, compared with 15, 559 last year. Box-office takings amounted to €808, 000. Despite the challenging international situation, visitors from abroad accounted for 38% of the Festival audience in 2026. Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, the USA, Austria, Spain, Belgium and Romania were the most strongly represented, while audiences also came from the Netherlands, Slovakia, Poland, Ireland, Russia, Australia, Bulgaria, China, Luxembourg, Canada, South Korea, Mexico, Sweden, Latvia, Greece, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Denmark, Azerbaijan, Finland, Slovenia, Croatia, San Marino, Ukraine, Colombia, Estonia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Georgia, Monaco, Norway, New Caledonia, Taiwan, Türkiye, Jersey, Lithuania, Portugal, Armenia and Cuba. In total, the Festival welcomed audiences from 51 countries across four continents.
The Festival attracted particularly extensive media coverage. A total of 157 journalists were accredited, representing media outlets from Italy and 23 other countries: Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Alongside the leading Italian national media, numerous international publications have covered ROF 2026, including Mainichi Shimbun (Japan), one of the world’s best-selling newspapers; The Observer (UK), the world’s first Sunday newspaper; and The Jewish Chronicle (UK), the oldest Jewish newspaper. German broadcaster WDR and Dutch broadcaster RTL also sent crews to produce reports on the Festival. The three opera premieres were broadcast live on Rai Radio3. |