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)
Nicola Alaimo, Britten Sinfonia, Carlo Rizzi, Opera Rara Chorus
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)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Enea Scala, Simone Alberghini, Daniele Rustioni, Opera Rara Chorus
Gaetano Donizetti: L'assedio di Calais, Act 1
"Come trigi" (Chorus, Eleonora, The Stranger)
Nuccia Folice, Norman Bailey, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry, 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, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Bailey, Lee Hickenbottom, 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)
Brindley Sherratt, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mark Elder, Joyce El-Khoury, David Kempster, Opera Rara Chorus, Clive Bayley, Michael Spyres, Wynne Evans
"Lovely night, such a lovely night" (Beatriz, Gretel, Rosa, Fleurette, Tourist, Police Chief)
Johanna Peters, Lissa Gray, Alan Opie, London Mozart Players, Joy Roberts, Marilyn Hill Smith, Clive Harre, Alun Francis
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)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Daniel, Josh Lovell
Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe, Act 2
"Take me away to the one I adore" (Edwige, Suzanne, Toby, Friday, Cannibals, Jim)
Alun Francis, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Alexander Oliver, Marilyn Hill Smith, Sandra Browne, Alan Opie, Yvonne Kenny, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"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)
Albina Shagimuratova, Carlo Rizzi, Nicola Alaimo, Britten Sinfonia, Sergey Romanovsky
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)
Jennifer Larmore, David Parry, Dean Robinson, Bruce Ford, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Claycomb
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)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maurizio Benini, 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"
Enkelejda Shkosa, William Matteuzzi, Elisabetta Scano, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, David Parry