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Special offer. Donizetti: Songs Vols 5 & 6

Ermonela Jaho (soprano), Carlo Rizzi (piano)

Donizetti: Songs Vols 5 & 6

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Special offer. Donizetti: Songs Vols 5 & 6

Ermonela Jaho (soprano), Carlo Rizzi (piano)

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One of Opera Rara’s most ambitious projects in its fifty-year history is to record the complete solo songs of Gaetano Donizetti. A handful of these songs have been long known and often performed; many more were listed in specialist catalogues but very rarely if ever performed; others still were completely unknown or thought lost and have now come to light.

Recent research connected with this project has made clear that, in total, Donizetti wrote some 200 solo songs over the course of his thirty-year career. Making modern editions of this vast corpus has been a challenging task: the songs are dispersed in European libraries and beyond, often having been casually given away at the time of composition (typically as a present to the dedicatee).

In their totality, these compositions make a powerful case for Donizetti as a key figure in nineteenth-century domestic music-making: someone whose achievements in this area deserve to be better known; a body of work that, single-handedly, makes a powerful argument for the importance of the Italian “school” in a field long dominated by German and French composers.

Ermonela Jaho's Donizetti Songs recital discs are generously supported by Elena Baturina in loving memory of Yury Luzhkov

The Donizetti Song Project is supported by the Opera Rara Donizetti Syndicate with additional support from the Colwinston Charitable Trust, Cockayne Grants for the Arts and London Community foundation.

With special thanks to Opera Rara’s Donizetti Patron, His Excellency The Italian Ambassador.

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  • Donizetti: Songs Vols 5 & 6

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  • International Classical Music Awards
    2026
    Winner - Vocal Music
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