YEREVAN TO HOST ROSSINI FESTIVAL

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian capital Yerevan will host this weekend a music festival dedicated to prominent Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini. Italian ambassador to Armenia, Marco Clemente told a news conference today the festival will open with the composer’s probably best known opera, The Barber of Seville, that will be performed on December 4 by the students of Yerevan Conservatory.
Another of his operas, The Italian Girl in Algiers, will be performed by the Yerevan Puppet Theater. It will be shown also to schoolchildren. Also some other works, including his well-known arias, will be played. The ambassador described the upcoming festival as “an exceptional” event. The government of Italy as well as Italian and Armenian businessmen have helped to organize the festival