Opera Rara Essentials
Warner Classics
The restoration and recording of rare and forgotten operas has been Opera Rara’s mission for over 50 years. Our Opera Rara playlist features brilliant and unjustly neglected music by Donizetti, Rossini, Mercadante, Leoncavallo, Offenbach, Puccini and more.
Coro, Scena ed Aria Murena. Di Stige il flutto ancor (Murena, Chorus)
Opera Rara Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Nicola Alaimo, Britten Sinfonia
Gaetano Donizetti: Dom Sebastien, roi de Portugal, Act 2
"Quel sangue versato al cielo sinnalza" (Elisabetta, the Others) [Live]
"Si cadro... ma estinto ancora" (Adelson, Salvini, Chorus)
Enea Scala, Simone Alberghini, Daniele Rustioni, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus
Gaetano Donizetti: L'assedio di Calais, Act 1
"Come trigi" (Chorus, Eleonora, The Stranger)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry, Nuccia Folice, Norman Bailey, Philharmonia Orchestra
III. "Oggi ei riede!" (Akebare, Chorus)
Gaetano Donizetti: Belisario, Act 1
Gaetano Donizetti: Il diluvio universale, Act 1
"Ah! Ti calma!" (Sela, Cadmo, Noe, Ada, Jafet, Artoo, Chorus)
Mark Wilde, Simon Bailey, Lee Hickenbottom, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Giuliano Carella, Patrizia Biccire
"Suona funerea" (Adriano, Knights)
Meyerbeer: Dinorah, Act 1
"Dors petite, dors tranquille" (Dinorah)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, James Judd, Deborah Cook
Gaetano Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro, Prologue
Gaetano Donizetti: Les Martyrs, Act 3
"Je crois en Dieu, roi du ciel et de la terre" (Polyeucte, Pauline, Severe, Felix, Callisthenes, Chorus)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Wynne Evans, Michael Spyres, Brindley Sherratt, David Kempster, Clive Bayley, Mark Elder, Joyce El-Khoury, Opera Rara Chorus
"Lovely night, such a lovely night" (Beatriz, Gretel, Rosa, Fleurette, Tourist, Police Chief)
Alun Francis, Marilyn Hill Smith, Clive Harre, Joy Roberts, Johanna Peters, Lissa Gray, Alan Opie, London Mozart Players
Offenbach: Fantasio, Act 1
"Voyez dans la nuit brune" (Fantasio)
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde, Act II
Couplets de la canne 'Me maquille-je comme on dit' (Casimir)
Paul Daniel, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Josh Lovell
Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe, Act 2
"Take me away to the one I adore" (Edwige, Suzanne, Toby, Friday, Cannibals, Jim)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Oliver, Sandra Browne, Marilyn Hill Smith, Alun Francis, Yvonne Kenny, Alan Opie
"Unitevi a gara" (Armida, Rinaldo, Carlo, Ubaldo)
L. Rossi: Amelia
"Oh! com'e tristo. Per me quest'ogg'il sol"
"Quant'e grato all'alma mia" (Elisabetta, Chorus)
"Angiol di Dio" (Guglielmo, Anna, Roberto, Chorus)
Gaetano Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, Act 1
"Havvi un Dio ? Benigno il cielo arridere" (Maria)
Terzetto. Piangi? Ti rasserena... (Settimio, Argelia, Murena)
Carlo Rizzi, Sergey Romanovsky, Albina Shagimuratova, Nicola Alaimo, Britten Sinfonia
Gounod: La Colombe, Act 1
Leoncavallo: Zazà, Act 1
"Lo sai tu che vuol dire un uom che fugge" (Zaza)
Pacini: Allan Cameron, Act 3
"O d'un re martire, alma beata"
Pacini: Alessandro nell'Indie, Act 2
"A sedar le greche schiere" (Timagene, Alessandro, Poro, Cleofide)
Laura Claycomb, Bruce Ford, David Parry, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jennifer Larmore, Dean Robinson
Pacini: Carlo di Borgogna, Act 2
"Io di Carlo muovo al campo" (Leonora, Arnoldo)
J. S. Mayr: Medea in Corinto, Act 1
Mercadante: I normanni a Parigi, Act 3
D'amistà le soavi catene (Chorus, Osvaldo)
Mercadante: Orazi e Curiazi, Act 1
"Di quai soavi palpiti" (Camilla, Romans)
"Figlia, ti scuoti" (Tullia)
Maurizio Benini, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Katherine Manley, Susan Patterson
"Dolce pensiero" (Chorus, Semiramide)
"Troia! qual fosti un di!" (Chorus)
Rossini: La donna del lago, Act 1
"Premio di dolci ardori" (Chorus, Rodrigo)
"Minacci pur disprezzo quel suo fluror" (Agorante, Chorus)
Rossini: Zelmira, Act 1
"Che vidi! Amici! Oh eccesso!" (Antenore)
Carmen Giannattasio, Maurizio Benini, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
"A la faveur de cette nuit obscure"
Elisabetta Scano, David Parry, Enkelejda Shkosa, William Matteuzzi, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields