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· Britten Sinfonia· Nicola Alaimo· Carlo Rizzi
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)
Philharmonia Orchestra· Geoffrey Mitchell Choir· David Parry· Norman Bailey· Nuccia Folice
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· Lee Hickenbottom· Giuliano Carella· Patrizia Biccire· Simon Bailey· London Philharmonic Orchestra
"Suona funerea" (Adriano, Knights)
Meyerbeer: Dinorah, Act 1
"Dors petite, dors tranquille" (Dinorah)
Deborah Cook· Academy of St. Martin in the Fields· James Judd
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)
Wynne Evans· Michael Spyres· Joyce El-Khoury· Mark Elder· Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment· Clive Bayley· Opera Rara Chorus· Brindley Sherratt· David Kempster
"Lovely night, such a lovely night" (Beatriz, Gretel, Rosa, Fleurette, Tourist, Police Chief)
Clive Harre· Alan Opie· Alun Francis· Joy Roberts· London Mozart Players· Johanna Peters· Lissa Gray· Marilyn Hill Smith
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)
Josh Lovell· London Philharmonic Orchestra· Paul Daniel
Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe, Act 2
"Take me away to the one I adore" (Edwige, Suzanne, Toby, Friday, Cannibals, Jim)
Alan Opie· Yvonne Kenny· Geoffrey Mitchell Choir· Alexander Oliver· Alun Francis· Marilyn Hill Smith· Royal Philharmonic Orchestra· Sandra Browne
"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)
Sergey Romanovsky· Carlo Rizzi· Britten Sinfonia· Albina Shagimuratova· Nicola Alaimo
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· Bruce Ford· Dean Robinson· London Philharmonic Orchestra· David Parry· 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· Scottish Chamber Orchestra· Maurizio Benini
"A la faveur de cette nuit obscure"
William Matteuzzi· David Parry· Academy of St. Martin in the Fields· Elisabetta Scano· Enkelejda Shkosa