Toi toi toi to Iván Ayón-Rivas making his Royal Ballet and Opera debut as the Duke of Mantua tonight in Verdi's Rigoletto . He's joined by team Opera Rara/Simon Boccanegra member William Thomas as Sparafucile, conducted by Sir Mark Elder ⬇️ https://ow.ly/rquS50YyEaZ

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This time next month on 23 April, we present @sorayamafi.bsky.social and Robert Lewis at Bechstein Hall for an evening of French, German, Italian and English Songs accompanied by Anna Tilbrook. It's our final #OR55 Salon Series recital - we hope to see you there 🎟️ ow.ly/Xlz650Yy6Jg

Thank you to Gramophone magazine for making this beautiful clip from the studio of Rosa Feola and Carlo Rizzi their Video of the Day 🎶 It's 'Amiamo, "Or che l'età ne invita"' from Volume 7 of our Donizetti Songs out now: ow.ly/oj4k50Yy0Gg

Thank you to Aidan who wrote into [email protected] - we passed on his message to host Flora Willson and guest Ermonela Jaho in our upcoming Lives in Song episode airing this Friday 27 March. If you want to #AskOperaRara or send us your #MyOperaRaraStory, write in or fill our form 👇

We're not the only ones obsessed... last week's BBC Radio Composer of the Week was Donizetti and we were happy to see our recordings featured in every episode 🙏 If you have access to BBC Sounds, you can catch up here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Supporting young artists on the other side of the world... our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi conducts this year's Metropolitan Opera Laffont Grand Finals Concert ✨ You can listen to it live from New York from 7.55pm GMT/8.55pm CET this Sunday 22 March: https://ow.ly/qf2250YwLAL

📢 Out today 📢 Donizetti Songs Volume 7 feat. Rosa Feola and Carlo Rizzi Physical, digital, streaming and on YouTube 🎧 Click below too to hear Rosa talking to presenter Oliver Camacho of Opera Box Score on her experience of recording with us 🎶

Two Awards Ceremonies in Two Months with our Artist Ambassador Ermonela Jaho ❤️ Ermonela and Henry Little pictured last night in Bamberg for #InternationalClassicalMusicAwards picking up our Best Vocal Category Award for Donizetti Songs Vols. 5&6 🙏🏆 (c) Marian Lenhard

Will you be joining us? Tonight we launch Donizetti Songs Volume 7 with Rosa Feola and Carlo Rizzi 🙌 From 6pm GMT/7pm CET, followed immediately afterwards by the album's YouTube premiere 💿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4cY...

5 hours and counting until the 2026 #InternationalClassicalMusicAwards - our Artist Ambassador Ermonela Jaho will be there to perform and accept the Award for Best Vocal Category for Donizetti Songs Volumes 5&6 🏆 Watch the live stream courtesy of Deutsche Welle:

'Michael Spyres making his role debut, is a marvel, with a gorgeous baritonal sound and impeccably secure high notes' - @thetimes.com Don't miss your chance to see our Artist Ambassador, Live in HD from the Met Opera, this Saturday, in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HoA...

'Rosa Feola traced a Lucia di Lammermoor of considerable interpretive depth, sustained by a combination of technical accomplishment and musical intelligence not frequently encountered on the operatic stage...' - said @bachtrack.com of Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro San Carlo 🎶

Welcome to our March newsletter! 🗞️📰 In which we invite you to join us for three YouTube premieres this month including of course the launch of Donizetti Songs Volume 7 with Rosa Feola and Carlo Rizzi next Thursday 19 March 💿 https://ow.ly/fJwU50YtOQZ

📢A reminder today that we're hiring📢 Full details in post below, deadline is Tuesday 7 April at 5pm UK time ⬇️

This Sunday 15 March at 4pm GMT/5pm CET, join us on YouTube for the streaming premiere of Julieth Lozano Rolong's recital filmed last month at Bechstein Hall. The concert includes María Grever's 'Cuando vuelva a tu lado' composed in 1934 and later adapted...

Toi toi toi to the young artists taking part in the National Opera Studio's Act 3 performance tonight in London. They'll be singing opera scenes conducted by Richard Farnes, in collaboration with Scottish Opera and English National Opera 👏 www.nationaloperastudio.org.uk/event/act-th...

We've heard cries for more Jennifer Larmore coverage and we're delivering today! 'Bravura Diva' is now available in full on our YouTube channel - feat. some of the most difficult music of the 19th century, written for some of the greatest singers of the time 🎶 Virtuosity is the theme ❗

50 years ago, we recorded our first complete opera - the world premiere recording of Donizetti's Ugo, conte di Parigi. Reconstructed by our founder Patric Schmid from the composer’s original manuscript, it's our March Recording of the Month 🎶💿 ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N2K...

A spontaneous gift written only an hour before leaving Rome? Yes, that's what the legend tells of the creation of 'No, tu non m’hai tradita!' in 1842. Enjoy our 2nd pre-release track from Vol. 7 Donizetti Songs with Rosa Feola, Sally Pryce and Carlo Rizzi on streaming platforms now 🎼

Thank you to Musica and Ermonela Jaho for your in depth conversation about our #DonizettiSongProject. We look forward to celebrating with you both at the International Classical Music Awards in just under 2 weeks' time 🎶 In Italian 🇮🇹: ow.ly/cgcg50YpIQJ

When our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi chuckles in an interview, you know you're about to hear a great story. This one is about his first encounter with Puccini's music aged 9 (or 10). From the latest episode of Lives in Song: Puccini available now on our YouTube channel 🎶

'Julieth Lozano Rolong proved an engaging performer who, whatever the style of the music, really captured its essence and conveyed it to us.' - thank you to Robert Hugill for joining us last week and reviewing our Salon Series recital 🙏 ⬇️ www.planethugill.com/2026/02/from...

We have your weekend listening sorted with our February Recording of the Month - 'exquisite' said one critic, a 'triumph' said another. Enjoy Offenbach's comic opera Vert-Vert today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmY...

A reminder that our next Lives in Song episode takes place tonight - our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi joins Flora Willson to talk all things Puccini from 6pm CET ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gsb...

About last night at Bechstein Hall - Julieth Lozano Rolong and Anna Tilbrook in a recital of German lieder, Italian song and Latin-American canción 🎶 Thank you to everyone who joined us 🙏 Do share with us your thoughts if you'd like to!

Whether you're joining us tonight at Bechstein Hall or (eagerly) awaiting our next YouTube stream on 15 March, you can read all about tonight's performance by Julieth Lozano Rolong and Anna Tilbrook here via our digital programme here: issuu.com/operarara/do...

Our February newsletter is here! 🗞️📰 In which we announce the news of our recent award 🏆🏆successes which we'd like to share with you our fellow opera lovers and followers wherever you might be in the world 🌎https://ow.ly/5Vyy50YlRy9 📸 (c) @opermagazin.bsky.social

About last night in Regensburg - Carlo Rizzi, Ermonela Jaho and Henry Little pictured with the Best Complete Edition Award for our #DonizettiSongProject (c) Sylvain Guillot Thank you so much to the @opermagazin.bsky.social for this honour 🙏🏆🥂

Will you be joining us this Thursday? 'I chose these pieces to showcase the fact that "traditional" repertoire can pair beautifully with Latin American repertoire; that, as human beings, we communicate in similar ways no matter where we come from' - Julieth Lozano Rolong 🎶

📢 We're hiring (again!) 📢 As we approach our 60th anniversary, we are seeking a strategic content developer and communicator to continue the digital transformation of our work, strategically highlighting all of our artistic and educational activities. Full details here: opera-rara.com/careers

Happy Friday music lovers! Volume 7 of our Donizetti Songs cycle with Rosa Feola and Carlo Rizzi is now available to pre-order You can also stream our first pre-release track - 'Tu mi chiedi si t'adoro'🎵🎧

Musicologist Roger Parker and cultural historian Flora Willson reflect on the 'aestheticization of death' in the 19th-century through poetry and music in this discussion from Lives in Song: Donizetti Episode 4 For more cultural/historical discussions like this, stream the episode in full 🎧

Calling all Puccini fans... who understand German 🇩🇪! BR-Klassik's new audio biography looks at the life of the man behind some of opera's most famous melodies. It also includes a little excerpt of Opera Rara too 🎶 Discover it here today: ow.ly/RXYq50YhyCI

The art of song is just as important as opera — and some might argue more demanding. Ahead of Friday’s first pre-release track from Rosa Feola's upcoming Donizetti Songs 💿, take a moment to listen to some of the singers who have truly mastered the art of song here: open.spotify.com/playlist/66H...

Tomorrow is not only Valentine's Day but our Honorary Patron Renée Fleming's birthday! 💘🥂 For all you Renée fans out there, did you know you can listen to her recording of Rosmonda d'Inghilterra on our YouTube channel? ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJxG...

'What is the staying power of Puccini's operas?' asked a follower from Mexico City of our experts in Episode 2 of Lives in Song: Puccini. If you have an #AskOperaRara question, we'd love to hear from you! Write in here or email us at [email protected]: opera-rara.com/about-us/ask...

As we look forward to Rosa Feola's Donizetti Songs Volume 7 release next month, we're indulging today in memories from 2024 when she performed for us @wigmore-hall.org.uk with Carlo Rizzi. Donizetti was, of course, on the programme - alongside Ponchielli, Pinsuti and Respighi, heard here 🎶

Nearly a decade after Barkouf (our next project 👀), Offenbach premiered his comic opera Vert-Vert in 1869. Toby Spence sings the title role and is joined by Jennifer Larmore as La Corilla 📸 here. Discover our February Recording of the Month here: ow.ly/33CH50YceFr

'Yes. Opera Rara is like my family and our upcoming recital has been a refreshing breath in a business that sometimes feels boxed. They have offered me a beautiful platform to reach new audiences and to create those bridges...

📢 One final reminder today that we are hiring 📢 Deadline for applications is *next* Monday 9 February at 5pm UK time 📢 We look forward to hearing from you

Today we'd like to share this beautiful video from the star of our next Salon Series recital, Julieth Lozano Rolong - "La canción del chingolo" by Lía Cimaglia Espinosa (1906-1998, Buenos Aires) will receive its UK premiere at Bechstein Hall on 26 February 🎶

Can you imagine a world in which publishers ran competitions for operas in a bid to discover the next great operatic talent? Well, in 1883 this is exactly what happened: the young Italian publisher Edoardo Sonzogno launched a competition for one-act operas, to which Puccini submitted Le Willis…

Revealing today the cover of Vol. 7 of our Donizetti Songs cycle with Rosa Feola and Carlo Rizzi, for release on 20 March 🙌 Whilst waiting for the first pre-release track, you can enjoy clips of Rosa and Carlo in some of the songs @wigmore-hall.org.uk here 🎶: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aqS...

This was fun!

Did you know that... the one and only existing recording of Gabriella di Vergy was first issued by us on LP in the 70s? 'A valuable contribution to our knowledge of Donizetti' - said Gramophone magazine Discover our January Recording of the Month today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCub...

Tonight from 6pm CET watch Episode 2 of Lives in Song: Puccini - Flora Willson and Alexandra Wilson discuss Le Willis, Puccini's first opera written when he was only 25... It's based on the legend of the Vila: fairies from Central European mythology 🧚: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrKu...

📢 Our final #DonizettiSongProject recital @wigmore-hall.org.uk is now on general sale 🎶 Don't miss your chance to hear Nicola Alaimo and Carlo Rizzi live on 16 June in a 100% Italian programme of songs: ow.ly/YF2N50Y5ucq

What's the connection between Julieth Lozano Rolong and Ermonela Jaho? They both recently recorded Puccini's La rondine with us, and on 26 Feb at Bechstein Hall, Julieth will sing two Donizetti French songs recorded by Ermonela (tracks 1 & 7). Discover Vol. 6 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U0q...

On this day, 125 years ago, the great Maestro Giuseppe Verdi passed away. We’re grateful for his timeless music — and for our stunning Simon Boccanegra soloists, whose artistry helped us achieve our first viral social media videos 🔥🎶 📸 Eri Nakamura as Amelia in Manchester