The city of Rossini

With his music Gioachino Rossini brought international renown to the city of Pesaro.
Take a pleasant stroll on the Rossini trail: his birthplace is now a museum and has material donated or willed, including prints, etchings, official portraits, and music scores. The Conservatory of Music was set up with the funds he left to the city for that purpose and many world-famous names have passed through its doors: Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco and Riz Ortolani all studied here, and its directors have included Pietro  Mascagni, Amilcare Zanella, Riccardo Zandonai and Franco Alfano.
The Theatre was named for Gioachino Rossini on his death in 1855, but had been inaugurated in 1637 as Teatro del Sole and renamed Teatro Nuovo in 1818 when Rossini conducted his opera La Gazza Ladra. Today it is used for cultural events programmed by the Municipality of Pesaro and staged by them or by other bodies and associations. From 2000 to 2002 the theatre was one of the first historic theatres in Italy to be renovated in accordance with current European safety regulations. 
The renovation work also included upgrading and improving décor, technology and services, enabling the city to offer an efficient and ultra-modern theatre and high quality entertainment.  Another delight on the Rossini trail is the Tempietto inside the eighteenth-century Palazzo Olivieri, seat of the Rossini Foundation. Here are kept the manuscripts of the operas first staged in Naples: Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra;  Otello, ossia il Moro di Venezia; Armida; La donna del lago; Maometto II; Adina.
The recently opened Rossini Foundation Library has critical editions of his works together with the rich nineteenth-century collection know as the Lord St. Davids collection, an excellent bibliography of literature concerning Rossini, the music library which belonged to the conductor and composer Vittorio Gui, microfilms, encyclopaedias and dictionaries of music and entertainment.
The Rossini Opera Festival takes place annually in August and is the only international opera festival devoted exclusively to the famous composer. It is one of the most important music festivals in Europe, attracting enthusiasts and experts from all over the world. Rossini Opera Festival, the independent body responsible for organising the event, promotes an important, original interactive applied musicology workshop, devoted to recovering all the unknown musical, theatrical and editorial matter concerning Rossini.
This body collaborates with the Rossini Foundation which is mainly concerned with critical editions of Rossini’s operas (these can be consulted in the Library); not just in philologicalrestoration and publishing of authentic versions of works already known but also with bringing back to normal musical life all the music Rossini wrote, no longer limited to those few operas which were the only Rossini repertoire in the past. The ROF, in staging critical editions of Rossini’s works, makes an immediate sounding board for the work of the Foundation.
www.rossinioperafestival.it