Latest News: Classical, Opera Rara (label)
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Interview,
Carlo Rizzi on Mercadante, Leoncavallo and Donizetti 28th December 2023The Italian conductor looks back on his first few years as Artistic Director of Opera Rara, including recordings of Leoncavallo's Zingari and Mercadante's Il Proscritto - plus a new mission to record the complete Donizetti songs with singers including Lawrence Brownlee and William Thomas.
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Recording of the Week,
Leoncavallo's Zingari on Opera Rara 23rd September 2022Carlo Rizzi conducts a scintillating account of the Pushkin-inspired one-act opera from 1912, starring Krassimira Stoyanova and Arsen Soghomonyan.
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Interview,
Della Jones on Opera Rara 27th October 2021The 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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Recording of the Week,
Donizetti's Il Paria from Opera Rara 15th January 2021Sir 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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Recording of the Week,
Ermonela Jaho's Anima Rara 25th September 2020The Albanian soprano's debut solo recording on Opera Rara pays tribute to Rosina Storchio, who created the role of Madama Butterfly and was also muse to Leoncavallo, Giordano and Mascagni.
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Interview,
Ermonela Jaho on Anima Rara 10th September 2020The Albanian soprano talks to Katherine about her debut solo recording on Opera Rara, focusing on the short but remarkable career of Rosina Storchio, who created the role of Madama Butterfly.
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Interview,
Opera Rara at 50 2nd July 2020As the label celebrates its half-century, Chief Executive Henry Little talks to Katherine about adventures in 'live operatic archaeology' and upcoming recording projects.
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Interview,
Ermonela Jaho on Le Willis 19th September 2019The Albanian soprano talks to Katherine about singing the role of Anna on Sir Mark Elder's recording of Puccini's first opera in its original one-act incarnation, released tomorrow on Opera Rara.
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Recording of the Week,
Donizetti's L'Ange de Nisida 22nd March 2019Sir 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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Interview,
Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's L’Ange de Nisida 21st March 2019The 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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Interview,
Albina Shagimuratova and Daniela Barcellona on Semiramide 26th September 2018Katherine talks to the Russian soprano and Italian mezzo who star as mother and estranged son on Sir Mark Elder's new, uncut recording of Rossini's great opera seria.
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Recording of the Week,
Rossini's Semiramide from Mark Elder 7th September 2018Rossini's final Italian opera seria receives a taut, compelling reading on period instruments in an interpretation which plays up its baroque pedigree to great effect.
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Interview,
Michael Spyres on Espoir 5th September 2017The American tenor talks to Katherine about his tribute to the pioneering French tenor Gilbert Duprez, out on Friday on Opera Rara.
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Interview,
Joyce El-Khoury on Écho 28th August 2017The Lebanese-Canadian soprano talks to Katherine about her tribute to the French singer Julie Dorus-Gras, out next week on Opera Rara.
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Interview,
Daniele Rustioni on Bellini's Adelson e Salvini 2nd March 2017The young Italian conductor talks to Katherine about recording Bellini's first opera, due for release tomorrow on Opera Rara.
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Interview,
Ermonela Jaho on Leoncavallo's Zazà 9th June 2016Katherine talks to the Albanian soprano about singing the title-role on Opera Rara's forthcoming recording of a little-known verismo gem.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Le Duc d'Albe 26th February 2016Katherine enjoys Donizetti's Flanders-set epic Le Duc d'Albe, conducted by Mark Elder.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Gounod's La Colombe 30th October 2015Katherine listens to Gounod's charming comic opera, with farce and avian nonsense aplenty.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Les Martyrs 4th May 2015Katherine listens to the first ever complete recording of Donizetti's opera.
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Interview,
Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's Les Martyrs 3rd April 2015Ahead of Opera Rara's release of the work's premiere recording next month, Katherine talks to the British conductor about Donizetti's Parisian breakthrough.