Your valuable support

CD sales alone cannot cover all our costs and we are looking for new supporters to ensure that this much-loved label survives.

For over 40 years, Opera Rara has brought many wonderful, yet neglected, 19th-century operas back to life in internationally acclaimed recordings and performances.

As a charity Opera Rara must raise 70% of its income through grants and donations from generous opera lovers and Trusts and Foundations to enable it to continue its work.

Your support will enable Opera Rara to:

• Revive and preserve forgotten operas through its recordings, thereby creating an indelible legacy for future generations to enjoy.

• Make these recordings accessible to the world via digital downloading.

• Create a permanent archive of original recordings backed by scholarship and research.

• House and add to its fine and unique library of scores, libretti, books and prints.

• Provide regular live performances of opera not heard elsewhere.

• Record the voices of tomorrow by providing a platform for young talent.

We need your support to ensure our future; we are not a regularly grant-funded organisation and have to raise nearly half a million pounds annually to enable us to create two full-length opera recordings and concert performances every year.

By becoming a supporter of Opera Rara you will directly help us to continue our mission.

We welcome and value any contribution you can make, from £1 to £100,000.

Opera Rara is extremely grateful to all those who generously support us.

See a list of our Opera Rara Patrons and Supporters

Different levels of support:

"Opera Rara really is doing something special...how much poorer our personal libraries would be without them" 

Gramophone, November 2009

More Information

Please contact the Development Department on
+44 (0)20 7613 2858
or info@opera-rara.com