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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20040916
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Byline: Christopher Morley

Now in its 25th year, the Rossini Opera Festival is held every August in Pesaro, birthplace of one of the world's most endearing composers.

This charming, elegant little town on the Italian Adriatic coast entertains opera-lovers from all over the world, anxious to explore the seemingly limitless output of someone who ironically described himself as lazy. This year was a bumper year, with imaginative productions of the composer's Tancredi, Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra, and a continually delightful staging of the rar-ity Matilde di Shabran. ...

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