Gioachino Rossini, who was called “the Napoleon of a musical era”, with his native city had an indissoluble, vital relationship. His brilliant and complex personality, which sublimated into music, still reverberates in Pesaro, so much so as to lead UNESCO to acknowledge her in 2017 as a City of Music. The artistic and cultural offer of Pesaro, inspired by Rossini, keeps growing, as is witnessed by the inauguration, to take place in 2019, of the Rossini National Museum, which will be linked to other Rossini sites. Indeed, while walking in the historic centre, the name and music of Rossini appear discretely everywhere. The homonymous theatre, the most important in town, was inaugurated by Rossini himself in 1818 with a performance of “La Gazza Ladra” (The thieving magpie). It hosts every year the Rossini Opera Festival, one of the most important in the world. Music is studied with diligence in the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory, created after an express wish of the great composer, witnessed by a bequest to the City Council. Rossini’s career was a great “crescendo”, like the ones typical of his operas, but even the highest peaks have a valley where they raise from: in the historic centre, while heading for the sea, one finds the house where Rossini was born. At No. 34 of the road now named after him, from the outside the house looks humble, one like many others. But as a man, apparently common, may hide the genius, so, after entering, one finds a multimedia museum with printings and engravings, portraits and original scores, and a fortepiano on whose keys the Maestro performed his great creations. At the last floor of the museum, there is an area dedicated to Rossini Gourmet, a project diffused in the whole city, which celebrates gastronomy, which he loved so much, with dedicated recipes and enogastronomic events. The National Rossini Museum was recently inaugurated inside the prestigious Montani Antaldi Palace, in G. Passeri street. The museum tells the life, the man and the greatness of the artist, as well as Gioachino Rossini’s modernity.
Museo Nazionale Rossini