Performances of Welsh National Opera Orchestra at BBC Music

Sun 24 Aug 2025

• 19:00

  Under the Italian Sun (Bristol)

  Bristol Beacon

  Carlo Rizzi and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera perform sumptuous works by Italian composers Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Puccini

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  Carlo Rizzi and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera perform sumptuous works by Italian composers Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Puccini

  Programme

  • • • Gioachino Rossini
      • William Tell – overture(12 mins)
    • • Giacomo Puccini
      • Capriccio sinfonico(12 mins)
    • • Luciano Berio
      • Folk Songs(23 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Giuseppe Verdi
      • I vespri siciliani – overture(9 mins)
    • • Ottorino Respighi
      • Il tramonto(16 mins)
    • • Edward Elgar
      • In the South (Alassio)(20 mins)

  Performers

  • Virginie Verrez

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Welsh National Opera Orchestra
  • Carlo Rizzi

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Gioachino Rossini
  • Giacomo Puccini
  • Luciano Berio
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Ottorino Respighi
  • Edward Elgar

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