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Opera Rara announce 2024/25 season of live operatic archaeology

Opera Rara announce 2024/25 season of live operatic archaeology

We’re delighted to announce our 2024/25 season of live operatic archaeology featuring performances and recording releases celebrating the past made new. Gaetano Donizetti, whose music we’ve returned to time and again since our founding in 1970, is the main focal point...

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L’esule di Roma bonus track: Murena’s mad scene

L’esule di Roma bonus track: Murena’s mad scene

‘It is often thought that Donizetti only wrote mad scenes for women but this mad scene is one of his most piercing and innovative’ Donizetti expert and our Repertoire Consultant Roger Parker on the psychologically complex character of Murena sung by Nicola...

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Carlo Rizzi awarded Order of the Star of Italy

Carlo Rizzi awarded Order of the Star of Italy

Earlier this week, our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi was awarded the honour of ‘Grande Ufficiale’ (Grand Officer) of the ‘Ordine della Stella d’Italia’ (Order of the Star of Italy), one of two orders of the Italian Republic, for his commitment and contribution to...

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La Princesse de Trébizonde wins OPER! Award

La Princesse de Trébizonde wins OPER! Award

Last night, Opera Rara won the OPER! Award for Best Opera Recording for its studio release of Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde (ORC63). This is the company’s second OPER! Award having won in 2019 for its world premiere recording of Donizetti’s L’Ange de Nisida....

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Opera Rara Winter/Spring 2024 Highlights

Opera Rara Winter/Spring 2024 Highlights

On 9 September, Opera Rara launched its Donizetti Song Project: an ambitious new multi-year initiative to record and perform Donizetti’s entire corpus of songs, nearly 200 in total of which many have never been heard before. Following the Project’s launch at Wigmore...

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Big Give a big success for emerging talent

Big Give a big success for emerging talent

Starting on Giving Tuesday last week, Opera Rara launched its first Big Give with a goal of £15,000 to support the charity’s work with emerging artists. The Championing Emerging Talent campaign took place over 7 days and featured interviews with artists who have...

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Il proscritto wins an International Opera Award

Il proscritto wins an International Opera Award

Last night, Opera Rara won its fourth International Opera Award for best Complete Opera Recording for its studio release of Mercadante’s Il proscritto (ORC62). Representing the company in Warsaw was Opera Rara’s Chief Executive Henry Little,  who said: ‘Our Artistic...

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Opera Rara performance features on US radio

Opera Rara performance features on US radio

Opera Rara’s acclaimed recording of Mercadante’s Il proscritto will be broadcast as part of the Chicago network’s prestigious Opera Series, and syndicated across the USA. Broadcast date: Saturday 8 July at Midday (US Central time / 6 hours behind UK time) Available to...

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