Rossini's Semiramide: Concert performance by Lyon Opera

About the Event

Rossini's final Italian opera receives a concert performance at the Théâtre de Champs-Élysées.

Evelyno Pidò conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of Lyon Opera, with a cast of international soloists, in the last opera Rossini wrote before moving to Paris and began working in French.

The opera will be performance in a concert version, with stage direction by Alan Woodridge.

Semiramide tells the story of the Babylonian Queen who, having murdered her husband, is choosing a successor to the throne. Her accomplice, Assur, expects to be chosen, but Semiramide is in love with the beautiful Arsace…

sung in italian with french subtitles

Melodramma tragico in two acts (1823)
Libretto by Gaetano Rossi after the tragedy by Voltaire

Evelino Pidò: conductor

Elena Mosuc: Semiramide
Ruxandra Donose: Arsace
Michele Pertusi: Assur
John Osborn: Idreno

Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon
Chœurs de l’Opéra de Lyon