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Gioacchino Rossini's opera in two acts. Libretto by Luigi Balocchi based on the novel "Corinne, ou L'Italie" by Germaine de Staël. Music Director: Tugan Sokhiev. Stage Director: Damiano Michieletto. Set Designer: Paolo Fantin. Costume Designer: Carla Teti. Lighting Designer: Alessandro Carletti. Chief Chorus Master: Valery Borisov. Presented with one interval. Rossini's last opera in the Italian language, "The Journey to Reims" as commissioned to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X in Reims in 1825 and has been acclaimed as one of Rossini's finest compositions. A demanding work, it requires 14 soloists (three sopranos, one contralto, two tenors, four baritones, and four basses). At its premiere in 1825, it was sung by the greatest voices of the day. Since the opera was written for a specific occasion, with a plot about European aristocrats, officers - and one poetess - en route to join in the French coronation festivities that the opera itself was composed for, Rossini never intended it to have a life beyond a few performances in Paris.
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