OPERA RARA
On Saturday 2 November, Opera Rara return to Wigmore Corridor for its third ‘Donizetti & Buddies’ recital. Following every week recording collectively within the studio, Rosa Feola shall be accompanied by Carlo Rizzi on the piano.
Gramophone’s Label of the Yr 2024 – On 2 October Opera Rara was introduced as Gramophone’s Label of the Yr 2024. Earlier winners on this class embrace BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, Alpha Classics, Pentatone and Harmonia Mundi.
Representing the corporate on the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2024 ceremony in London was Opera Rara’s Chief Government Henry Little who mentioned: ‘Our historical past goes again 54 years to Opera Rara’s basis in 1970 by two visionary males: Patric Schmid and Don White. After an opportunity assembly with Joan Sutherland, their mission of restoring, recording, performing and selling the nice misplaced and forgotten operas of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries started. This creative endeavor has been championed by many nice conductors, musicologists, orchestras and singers; their braveness and dedication to Opera Rara is exemplary as they study and carry out music that hasn’t been heard generally in additional than 200 years.’
Opera Rara’s Inventive Director Carlo Rizzi despatched a message from Berlin the place he’s at present conducting at Deutsche Oper: ‘It has been one in every of my best honours and creative achievements to steer Opera Rara as Inventive Director. This award is the end result of a long time of labor, with each recording and restoration achieved with utmost care and unbelievable ardour. Thanks, Gramophone, for this recognition.’
2024 has confirmed to be fairly a 12 months already for Opera Rara, whose record of awards has now grown to incorporate OPER! Awards Finest Opera Recording and OPUS KLASSIK Finest Opera Recording for Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde (ORC63). The corporate’s newest full opera recording, Donizetti’s L’esule di Roma (ORC64) performed by Carlo Rizzi, was additionally nominated for a 2024 Worldwide Opera Award within the CD (Full Opera) class.
Opera Rara is a London based mostly charity and recording label that has been on the forefront of musical archaeology for over 50 years. Distributed worldwide by Warner Classics, the corporate’s catalogue includes over 100 titles together with greater than 60 full size opera recordings. Opera Rara’s work has been pivotal within the revaluation of the legacies of composers equivalent to Donizetti, Pacini, Offenbach and Mercadante. In 2019, Carlo Rizzi turned Inventive Director, and in 2022, Ermonela Jaho and Michael Spyres have been named Artist Ambassadors. Renée Fleming, who made her full opera recording debut with the corporate in 1994, is Opera Rara’s Honorary Patron.
Final September, Opera Rara launched its Donizetti Tune Mission, an bold multi-year initiative to file and carry out Donizetti’s whole corpus of solo songs, practically 200 in whole, a lot of them by no means been heard in fashionable occasions. Thus far, Opera Rara has given 23 modern-day Donizetti music premieres to the general public, at London’s Wigmore Corridor or as a part of its Salon Sequence for rising artists. Eight recital albums are deliberate over the approaching seasons.
4 October marked the discharge of Volumes 1 and a pair of of the Donizetti Tune Mission, that includes 28 tenor songs with Lawrence Brownlee and 26 baritone songs with Nicola Alaimo. Each singers are accompanied by Carlo Rizzi on the piano. On 3 October all three artists took half in a digital launch, which was adopted by the YouTube premieres of each releases.