Browse: Opera Rara (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Opera Rara.
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Donizetti: Belisario
Nicola Alaimo (Belisario), Joyce El-Khoury (Antonina), Camilla Roberts (Irene), Russell Thomas (Alamiro), Alastair Miles (Giustiniano), Julia Sporsen (Eudora), Peter Hoare (Eutropio), Edward Price (Eusebio), MIchael Bundy (Ottario), Darren Jeffery (Centurione)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Mark...
this Opera Rara recording makes amends for [Belisario's] long neglect. That is above all thanks to the conducting of Mark Elder...He injects it with such energy and pathos that you are reminded... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, Opera Choice
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Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro
Carmen Giannattasio (Caterina Cornaro), Colin Lee (Gerardo), Troy Cook (Lusignano), Graeme Broadbent (Andrea Cornaro), Vuyani Mlinde (Mocenigo), Loïc Félix (Strozzi, a Knight of the King) & Sophie Bevan (Matilde)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Singers, David Parry
Giannattasio brings an easy confidence to the rich lyricism of the writing, though a cleaner attack on the text would stamp more personality on the role...Colin Lee is sweet and graceful...and... — More…
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Opera, November 2013, Recording of the Month
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Donizetti: Parisina d’este
Carmen Giannattasio (Parisina), José Bros (Ugo), Dario Solari (Azzo), Nicola Ulivieri (Ernesto), Ann Taylor (Imelda)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
Donizetti provides Parisina with one of his most plaintive arias in 'Sogno talor di correre' and a spectacular send off in Act III with 'Ora funesta!'. There's some exquisite orchestra writing…... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Bellini: Adelson & Salvini
Daniela Barcellona (Nelly), Enea Scala (Salvini), Maurizio Muraro (Bonifacio), Leah-Marian Jones (Madame Rivers), Simone Alberghini (Lord Adelson), Kathryn Rudge (Fanny), Rodion Pogossov (Struley), David Soar (Geronio)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Daniele Rustioni
The young conductor Daniele Rustioni conducts Adelson as if it were a masterpiece, and the forces at his disposal respond appropriately — More…
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Donizetti: Maria di Rohan
Krassimira Stoyanova (Maria di Rohan), José Bros (Riccardo), Christopher Purves (Enrico), Brindley Sherratt, Loïc Félix (Armando di Gondì), Graeme Broadbent (Il Visconte di Suze), Christopher Turner (Aubry), Riccardo Simonetti (Un Familiare di Chevreuse), Enkelejda Shkosa (mezzo - appendix arias)
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Though not the first Maria di Rohan on CD, this set comprehensively eclipses the 1996 one...above all for Mark Elder's marvellously strong, supple conducting...Opera Rara's cast imaginatively... — More…
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Donizetti: L’Ange de Nisida
Joyce El-Khoury (Countess Sylvia de Linarès), David Junghoon Kim (Leone de Casaldi), Vito Priante (Don Fernand d’Aragon), Laurent Naouri (Don Gaspar), Evgeny Stavinsky (The Monk / Father Superior), Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir Mark Elder
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Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Kenneth Tarver (Aureliano), Catriona Smith (Zenobia), Silvia Tro Santafé (Arsace), Ezgi Kutlu (Publia), Andrew Foster-Williams (High Priest of Isis), Vuyani Mlinde (Licinio), Julian Alexander Smith (Oraspe)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maurizio Benini
Opera Rara's performance is a fine one, conducted with stylistic assurance by Maurizio Benini and sung by a good cast, able to rise above the music's considerable technical challenges to achieve... — More…
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Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide
Bruce Ford (Agorante), Nelly Miricioiu (Zoraide), William Matteuzzi (Ricciardo), Alastair Miles (Ircano), Della Jones (Zomira), Paul Nilon (Ernesto), Carol Smith (Fatima), Alice Coote (Elmira), Toby Spence (Zamorre)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, David Parry
An exemplary performance — More…
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Meyerbeer: Margherita d'Anjou
Annick Massis (Margherita d'Anjou), Bruce Ford (Duke of Lavarenne), Daniela Barcellona (Isaura), Alastair Miles (Carlo), Fabio Previati (Michele), Pauls Putnins (Duke of Gloucester), Colin Lee (Bellapunta), Roland Wood (Orner)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
Margaret of Anjou, the widow of Henry VI, is more familiar to us as the embittered old crone in Shakespeare's Richard III. In the opera she's relatively young and beautiful, and loved by the... — More…
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Mercadante: I Normanni a Parigi (highlights)
Judith Howarth (Berta), Barry Banks (Odone), Katarina Karnéus (Osvino), Riccardo Novaro (Ordamante), Graeme Broadbent & Aled Hall
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & Philharmonia Orchestra, Stuart Stratford
[Barry Banks's] incisive voice has the necessary agility...His vocal weight is enough for the more dramatic scenes...Karnéus brings flexibility to Osvino and her pleasing mezzo provides an attractive... — More…
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