“After the death of Napoleon there is another man who is talked about every day from Moscow to Naples, from London to Vienna, from Paris and Calcutta…” so wrote Stendhal in the book he dedicated to Rossini, the central figure of life Parisian and European music from the mid-1820s until his death in 1868.
The Wunderkammer Orchestra (Annunziata church, today at 9pm) offers a musical journey to tell “Paris in the times of Rossini” with the mezzo-soprano Polina Anikina (photo) and the pianist Davide Massacci. In the period mentioned above, Cigno from Pesaro wrote his last operas and other Italian masters such as Verdi and Donizetti composed grand operas; again in those years Wagner, having arrived in Paris, sought the support of Rossini, who remained a central figure even in the period in which musicians of the French school such as Bizet and Saint-Saëns operated in the city, alongside the great Russian masters to underline the connection between Russian high society culture and French culture.
But Rossini will also continue to influence the French twentieth century, because he was at the avant-garde: for this reason, the WunderKammer Orchestra dedicates the opera concert Paris in the time of Rossini to the composer from Pesaro and to cosmopolitan Paris, in which he reigned as the “Napoleon of Music”. . Polina Anikina, a very young performer, is currently attending the third year of Opera Singing at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. In 2021 she won the CIMP Italia Competition and was second at the Elite International Competition (USA); in 2023 she won the Rossini International Award. Davide Massacci studied at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Victoria Eugenia in Granada, and at the Fiesole Academy.
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