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Opera Rara

Opera Rara

recording the world’s rarest operas.

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: the catalogue includes complete operas as well as highlights and compilations, anthologies and recordings featuring outstanding soloists.

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  • Puccini's final version of La rondine from Opera Rara

    6th Nov 2026by Katherine Cooper

    Ermonela Jaho is on tear-jerking form as the complex heroine Magda in this darker, 1921 iteration of Puccini's rom-com turned sour, outstandingly conducted by Carlo Rizzi and idiomatically reconstructed from archive materials by the Opera Rara team.

    Classical Recording of the Week

  • Ermonela Jaho on La rondine

    29th Oct 2026by Katherine Cooper

    In advance of Opera Rara's new recording of the final, 1921 version of Puccini's storia di salon (plus excerpts from the 1919 revision of the score), the Albanian soprano discusses why the composer kept revisiting the 'beautiful soul' of its heroine Magda de Civry.

    Classical Interview
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