ArmenPress
Dec 2 2004

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