Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims
Salzburg Festival 2026
Haus für Mozart, Salzburg
Cecilia Bartoli (Corinna), Marina Viotti (Marchesa Melibea), Mélissa Petit (Contessa di Folleville), Tara Erraught (Madama Cortese), Edgardo Rocha (Cavalier Belfiore), Dmitry Korchak (Conte di Libenskof), Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (Lord Sidney), Florian Sempey (Don Profondo), Misha Kiria (Barone di Trombonok), Peter Kellner (Don Alvaro)
Chorus of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Les Musiciens du Prince–Monaco
Gianluca Capuano, conductor
Barrie Kosky, stage director
2026
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Cecilia Bartoli leads a formidable international cast in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, presented at the 2026 Salzburg Festival in a production by Barrie Kosky, with Gianluca Capuano conducting Les Musiciens du Prince–Monaco.
Rossini composed Il viaggio a Reims for the coronation of King Charles X of France in Reims in 1825. His final opera in Italian, the work received only a handful of performances before disappearing for more than a century. After its reconstruction in the 1970s, it returned to the stage in 1984 and has since established itself as one of the composer’s most dazzling ensemble works.
The plot gathers an eccentric group of aristocratic travellers from across Europe at a hotel, all supposedly heading to Reims for the coronation. Their journey provides Rossini with the framework for a succession of virtuoso arias and elaborate ensembles, as well as a playful satire of national stereotypes, vanity and social pretension.
At Salzburg, Bartoli takes the role of the poet Corinna, heading a cast that also features Marina Viotti as Marchesa Melibea, Mélissa Petit as Contessa di Folleville, Tara Erraught as Madama Cortese, Edgardo Rocha as Cavalier Belfiore, Dmitry Korchak as Conte di Libenskof, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo as Lord Sidney, Florian Sempey as Don Profondo and Misha Kiria as Barone di Trombonok.
Kosky’s colourful staging places Rossini’s comedy in an exuberant theatrical world, while Capuano — a long-standing collaborator of Bartoli — leads Les Musiciens du Prince–Monaco and the Chorus of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
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