Giordano/Pizzolato/Fogliani - Rossini: Il Viaggio A Reims

The great writer Stendhal wrote of Il viaggio a Reims that this opera is a feast. The plot is a contemporary farce tailor-made for a particular occasion - the coronation festivities of Charles X - though Rossini valued the music so highly that he reused at great part of the score three years later in the opera Le Comte Ory. With a cast of ten principal and eight smaller r�les, this sparkling work is heard complete for the first time and in accordance with the critical edition prepared by the Fondazione Rossini and Casa Ricordi.