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Lawrence Brownlee on Donizetti's songs
The American tenor introduces the inaugural volume of Opera Rara's mammoth Donizetti Song Project, which sees him joining forces with Carlo Rizzi to revive unpublished and previously-unrecorded songs - several of them written for the composer's friends to sing at parties...
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Javier Camarena on Signor Gaetano
The Mexican tenor discusses his recent Pentatone album exploring Donizetti's Italian operas (including rarities such as Betly, Maria de Rudenz and Giovedì Grasso), and explains why singing these works leaves him 'feeling satisfied and happy, rather than mentally exhausted!'.
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Signor Gaetano from Javier Camarena and Gli Originali
On the first of two albums devoted to the many and varied operas of Donizetti, the Mexican tenor brings fresh-faced charm to the comic heroes of L'elisir d'amore and Betly - but also excels in the darker and stormier waters of Roberto Devereux, Caterina Cornaro and Maria de Rudenz.
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Lisette Oropesa on French bel canto
As she prepares for the opening night of Handel's Alcina at Covent Garden tomorrow, the Cuban-American soprano discusses her new album of French opera arias by Donizetti and Rossini on Pentatone.
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Della Jones on Opera Rara
The veteran Welsh mezzo talks to Katherine about her career and her relationship with the label, which began in the late 1970s with a recording of Donizetti's Ugo, conte di Parigi.
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Donizetti: Il diluvio universale, Ugo conte di Parigi & L’assedio di Calais
Mirco Palazzi (Noè), Colin Lee (Cadmo), Majella Cullagh (Sela), Manuela Custer (Ada), Roland Wood (Artoo), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Giuliano Carella Della Jones (Luigi V), Eiddwen Harrhy (Emma), Janet Price (Bianca), Yvonne Kenny (Adelia), Maurice Arthur (Ugo), Christian du Plessis (Folco d’Angiò) Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Alun Francis Christian du Plessis (Eustachio), Nuccia Focile (Eleonora), Della Jones (Aurelio), John Treleaven (Edmondo), Eiddwen Harrhy (Isabella), Norman Bailey (L’Incognito), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry
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Donizetti's Il Paria from Opera Rara
Sir Mark Elder conducts a scintillating account of Donizetti's 1829 opera about religious persecution in sixteenth-century India, starring Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, and Misha Kiria.
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Antonio Pappano on Donizetti's Queens
The conductor talks to Katherine about recording the final scenes of Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena and Roberto Devereux with Diana Damrau and the Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for Warner Classics.
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Michael Fabiano on Donizetti and Verdi
The charismatic American tenor talks to Katherine about his debut solo recording on Pentatone, centring on two composers who have played a pivotal role in his career to date.
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Donizetti's L'Ange de Nisida
Sir Mark Elder conducts the world premiere of Donizetti’s opera semiseria from 1839, composed for a theatre which closed down before the opening night, but subsequently heavily revised as La favorite.
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Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's L’Ange de Nisida
The conductor talks to Katherine about the world premiere recording of Donizetti’s 1839 opera, released tomorrow on Opera Rara with Joyce El-Khoury in the title-role.
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Elīna Garanča sings the title role in Donizetti's La Favorite
Katherine enjoys Elīna Garanča's commanding performance in Donizetti's dramatic tragedy alongside Mariusz Kwiecień and Matthew Polenzani.
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Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and Donizetti's Poliuto from Glyndebourne
Katherine enjoys a double-bill of innovative Roman-themed operatic productions from Glyndebourne 2015.
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia (DVD)
Christine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus), Michael Sumuel (Junius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca) & Louise Alder (Lucia) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Hussain (conductor) & Fiona Shaw (stage director)
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Michael Spyres
Katherine talks to the American tenor about his career to date and his role on Opera Rara's new recording of Donizetti's Le Duc d’Albe.
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Donizetti: Le Duc d’Albe
Angela Meade (Hélène d’Egmont), Michael Spyres (Henri de Bruges), Laurent Naouri (Le Duc d'Albe), Gianluca Buratto (Daniel Brauer), David Stout (Sandoval), Trystan Llyr Griffiths (Carlos), Robin Tritschler (Balbuena), Dawid Kimberg (Un Tavernier) Hallé & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder
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Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Le Duc d'Albe
Katherine enjoys Donizetti's Flanders-set epic Le Duc d'Albe, conducted by Mark Elder.
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Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Les Martyrs
Katherine listens to the first ever complete recording of Donizetti's opera.
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Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's Les Martyrs
Ahead of Opera Rara's release of the work's premiere recording next month, Katherine talks to the British conductor about Donizetti's Parisian breakthrough.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Katherine has some difficult decisions to make about favourite recordings of operas by Gaetano Donizetti.
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Joyce DiDonato on Maria Stuarda
Joyce DiDonato talks to Katherine about the challenges of bringing Donizetti's Stuart queen to life.
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Lucia from the Mariinsky
Natalie Dessay brings fragility and neurosis to the title-role, contrasting powerfully with Gergiev’s red-blooded Donizetti à la Verdi, Piotr Beczała’s ardent, ringing Edgardo and Vladislav Sulimsky’s black-voiced Enrico.
