Rossini Cards

Mauro Bigonzetti

With Rossini Cards, Mauro Bigonzetti transforms Rossini's music into a veritable choreographic feast, blending classical grandeur with contemporary vitality.

Former director and choreographer of the renowned Aterballetto company, one of Italy's leading ballet companies, Mauro Bigonzetti presents Rossini Cards – a baroque and extravagant style in which classical foundations unabashedly mingle with resolutely modern technique. This dazzling marriage of sumptuous choreography and the music of Rossini, one of the emblematic figures of Italian opera, invites the spectator to a kind of grand mass, a celebration of an immense feast brought about by the timeless encounter of two Italian maestros: Mauro Bigonzetti and Rossini.

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) is considered one of the great reformers of 19th-century opera. A genius, brilliant, and notoriously hedonistic, Rossini enjoyed blurring the lines, notably by presenting a false image of himself, most often that of an inveterate slacker. Among his masterpieces are Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in Algeri , and Guillaume Tell.

"Deeply imbued with the Italian collective consciousness, his world is displayed as steeped in refined musical and pictorial culture—that is to say, earthy, gustatory, sensual, and often abundant. His choreographic writing, however, remains rigorous, precise, and structured down to the smallest detail."

- Aline Apostolska, La Presse (Montreal, Canada)

"The performance that followed was technically impressive and artistically accessible. The audience was delighted; smiles could be seen on every face during the intermission and at the end of the show."

- Jennifer Brewer, Portland Press Herald (Portland, USA)