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15/05/2008
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ABOUT US
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Opera Rara, the brainchild of Patric Schmid and Don White has been in the business of bringing back forgotten operatic repertoire of the nineteenth century for the last thirty-five years. Operas once threatened with extinction have now been brought vividly back to life through the Opera Rara recordings.
Pictured (right) Opera Rara co-founder, Patric Schmid (12.04.44-06.11.05)
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Opera Rara team:
Managing Director – Stephen Revell
Artistic Adviser - David Parry
Assistant Artistic Adviser - Ludmilla Andrew
Head of Music - Robin Newton
Production Co-ordinator – Kim Panter
Production Manager – Paul Harwood
Sales and Finance Manager – Susan Bowen
Consultant Musicologist – Robert Roberts
Public Relations and Marketing consultant – Terri Robson
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Opera Rara Board of Directors:
Patrick Griggs CBE (Chairman)
Ludmilla Andrew
Glenn Hurstfield
Stratton Mills
Alison Nicol
Hetty Ford (Ad Honorem)
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Opera Rara Releases – 2008
February: Donizetti – Imelda de’ Lambertazzi. In a new departure for Opera Rara, we joined forces with Mark Elder and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to record Donizetti’s thrilling opera. Nicole Cabell as Imelda leads the cast with Frank Lopardo (Orlando), Massimo Giordano (Lamberto), James Westman (Bonifacio), Brindley Sherratt (Ubaldo) and the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir.
May: Ambroise Thomas – La Cour de Célimène. Thomas composed this opéra comique in 1855. Set in 1750 in a chateau near the French capital, the plot centers on a young widowed Countess who has no fewer than 14 suitors. Laura Claycomb is the Countess with Joan Rodgers (La Baronne), Sébastien Droy (Le Chevalier) and Alastair Miles (Le Commandeur) with members of the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir. Andrew Litton conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra.
May: Mayr Rediscovered. Between 1794 and 1824 Mayr composed over 60 operas. Admired for him combination of Italianate melody with Germanic harmony and instrumentation, he is a composer whose music explores the psychology of his characters with deeply satisfying thoughtfulness – as this absorbing selection of exceptions, taken from the Opera Rara catalogue, demonstrates.
September: Bellini – La straniera. First staged at La Scala in 1829 the score points forward to Bellini’s greatest works and on its own account includes superb dramatic writing. Patrizia Ciofi is Alaida (The stranger) with Mark Stone (Il barone di Valdeburgo), Darío Schmunck (Arturo), Enkelejda Shokas (Isoletta), Graeme Broadbent (Il Priore), Roland Wood (Il signore di Montolino) and Aled Hall (Osburgo) with the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir and The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Parry.
November: Jean-Baptiste Wekerlin – La Laitière de Trianon (The Milkmaid of Trainon). Volume 12 in Opera Rara’s Il Salotto series is a single work designed for intimate performance. Just two singers, Joan Rodgers and Yann Beuron with Jeff Cohen (piano), take part in this piece, set at Versailles in 1775.
Opera Rara Recordings – 2008
February – We begin the recording year with Mercadante’s Virginia. Susan Patterson leads the cast in the title role and is joined by Paul Charles Clarke, Charles Castronovo, Stefano Antonucci, Andrew Foster Williams, Mark Le Brocq and Katherine Manley. Maurizio Benini conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
June – For the next volume in our acclaimed ‘Essential’ series we record highlights from Ricci’s Corrado d’Altamura. The cast features Dimitra Theodossiou, Dmitry Korchak, James Westman, Ann Taylor, Andrew Foster Williams, Cora Burggraaf, Camilla Roberts and Mark Wilde. Roland Böer conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra.
July – The Il Salotto (Salon) series continues with a recording of Rossini songs. We are delighted to welcome back Il Salotto regular Jennifer Larmore who is joined on this recording by Mireille Delunsch, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Brindley Sherratt and Lawrence Brownlee with Malcolm Martineau (piano).
September – Following on from the success of our Entre Nous: Celebrating Offenbach release we will be recording Offenbach’s Vert-Vert with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by David Parry. The cast includes Toby Spence, Jennifer Larmore, Loïc Felix, Anne Marie Owens, Franck Leguérinel, Sébastien Droy, Mark Stone, Mark Le Brocq, Ann Taylor and Franck Lopez.
November/December – Our final recording for 2008 will be Donizetti’s Parisina with a cast led by Patrizia Ciofi in the title role with José Bros, Nicola Alaimo and Ann Taylor. David Parry conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The studio recording will be followed by a concert performance at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 6th December 2008.
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