26 Sep 2005
A Celebratory Crown of Froth Fit for a King
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/arts/music/26viag.html
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https://h-france.net/vol18reviews/vol18no52palidda.pdf
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2018/08/glyndebourne_an.php
A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/arts/music/26viag.html
By Anne Midgette [NY Times, 26 September 2005]
Il Giglio d'Oro, the Golden Lily, is the name of the inn where Rossini's "Viaggio a Reims" is set. And Rossini gilded this lily with a vengeance.
An occasional piece written to celebrate the coronation of Charles X of France in 1825, "Il Viaggio" impractically called for 10 or 12 soloists. It is a long and almost plotless excuse for one musical set piece, one star turn, after another.