50 years ago, we recorded our first complete opera - the world premiere recording of Donizetti's Ugo, conte di Parigi. Reconstructed by our founder Patric Schmid from the composer’s original manuscript, it's our March Recording of the Month 🎶💿
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For our US purchasers, head here to pre-order: www.warnerclassics.com/release/doni...
A spontaneous gift written only an hour before leaving Rome? Yes, that's what the legend tells of the creation of 'No, tu non m’hai tradita!' in 1842.
Enjoy our 2nd pre-release track from Vol. 7 Donizetti Songs with Rosa Feola, Sally Pryce and Carlo Rizzi on streaming platforms now 🎼
And if you're based in Vienna, don't miss your chance to hear Ermonela as Puccini's Cio-Cio-San at the Wiener Staatsoper opening this Saturday 7 March: www.wiener-staatsoper.at/kalender/det...
Thank you to Musica and Ermonela Jaho for your in depth conversation about our #DonizettiSongProject.
We look forward to celebrating with you both at the International Classical Music Awards in just under 2 weeks' time 🎶
In Italian 🇮🇹: ow.ly/cgcg50YpIQJ
When our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi chuckles in an interview, you know you're about to hear a great story. This one is about his first encounter with Puccini's music aged 9 (or 10).
From the latest episode of Lives in Song: Puccini available now on our YouTube channel 🎶
'Julieth Lozano Rolong proved an engaging performer who, whatever the style of the music, really captured its essence and conveyed it to us.' - thank you to Robert Hugill for joining us last week and reviewing our Salon Series recital 🙏
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We have your weekend listening sorted with our February Recording of the Month - 'exquisite' said one critic, a 'triumph' said another. Enjoy Offenbach's comic opera Vert-Vert today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmY...
A reminder that our next Lives in Song episode takes place tonight - our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi joins Flora Willson to talk all things Puccini from 6pm CET
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About last night at Bechstein Hall - Julieth Lozano Rolong and Anna Tilbrook in a recital of German lieder, Italian song and Latin-American canción 🎶
Thank you to everyone who joined us 🙏
Do share with us your thoughts if you'd like to!
Whether you're joining us tonight at Bechstein Hall or (eagerly) awaiting our next YouTube stream on 15 March, you can read all about tonight's performance by Julieth Lozano Rolong and Anna Tilbrook here via our digital programme here:
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Our February newsletter is here! 🗞️📰
In which we announce the news of our recent award 🏆🏆successes which we'd like to share with you our fellow opera lovers and followers wherever you might be in the world 🌎https://ow.ly/5Vyy50YlRy9
📸 (c) @opermagazin.bsky.social
About last night in Regensburg - Carlo Rizzi, Ermonela Jaho
and Henry Little pictured with the Best Complete Edition Award for our #DonizettiSongProject (c) Sylvain Guillot
Thank you so much to the @opermagazin.bsky.social for this honour 🙏🏆🥂
Will you be joining us this Thursday?
'I chose these pieces to showcase the fact that "traditional" repertoire can pair beautifully with Latin American repertoire; that, as human beings, we communicate in similar ways no matter where we come from' - Julieth Lozano Rolong
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📢 We're hiring (again!) 📢
As we approach our 60th anniversary, we are seeking a strategic content developer and communicator to continue the digital transformation of our work, strategically highlighting all of our artistic and educational activities.
Full details here: opera-rara.com/careers
Happy Friday music lovers! Volume 7 of our Donizetti Songs cycle with Rosa Feola and Carlo Rizzi is now available to pre-order
You can also stream our first pre-release track - 'Tu mi chiedi si t'adoro'🎵🎧
Musicologist Roger Parker and cultural historian Flora Willson reflect on the 'aestheticization of death' in the 19th-century through poetry and music in this discussion from Lives in Song: Donizetti Episode 4
For more cultural/historical discussions like this, stream the episode in full 🎧
Calling all Puccini fans... who understand German 🇩🇪!
BR-Klassik's new audio biography looks at the life of the man behind some of opera's most famous melodies. It also includes a little excerpt of Opera Rara too 🎶
Discover it here today: ow.ly/RXYq50YhyCI
The art of song is just as important as opera — and some might argue more demanding.
Ahead of Friday’s first pre-release track from Rosa Feola's upcoming Donizetti Songs 💿, take a moment to listen to some of the singers who have truly mastered the art of song here:
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Tomorrow is not only Valentine's Day but our Honorary Patron Renée Fleming's birthday! 💘🥂
For all you Renée fans out there, did you know you can listen to her recording of Rosmonda d'Inghilterra on our YouTube channel? ⬇️
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'What is the staying power of Puccini's operas?' asked a follower from Mexico City of our experts in Episode 2 of Lives in Song: Puccini.
If you have an #AskOperaRara question, we'd love to hear from you! Write in here or email us at ask@opera-rara.com: opera-rara.com/about-us/ask...
As we look forward to Rosa Feola's Donizetti Songs Volume 7 release next month, we're indulging today in memories from 2024 when she performed for us @wigmore-hall.org.uk with Carlo Rizzi.
Donizetti was, of course, on the programme - alongside Ponchielli, Pinsuti and Respighi, heard here 🎶
Nearly a decade after Barkouf (our next project 👀), Offenbach premiered his comic opera Vert-Vert in 1869. Toby Spence sings the title role and is joined by Jennifer Larmore as La Corilla 📸 here.
Discover our February Recording of the Month here: ow.ly/33CH50YceFr
between cultures that classical music, in my opinion, deeply needs.' - soprano Julieth Lozano Rolong spoke with MeloDrama magazine ahead of her recital with us on 26 February at Bechstein Hall
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'Yes. Opera Rara is like my family and our upcoming recital has been a refreshing breath in a business that sometimes feels boxed. They have offered me a beautiful platform to reach new audiences and to create those bridges...
📢 One final reminder today that we are hiring
📢 Deadline for applications is *next* Monday 9 February at 5pm UK time
📢 We look forward to hearing from you
