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'''Opera Rara''' is a London-based opera company and recording label which specialises in recording and performing forgotten operatic repertoire from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1970<ref>((Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akdLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Formed%20in%201970%22 |title=High Fidelity |date=1977 |publisher=ABC Leisure Magazines |page=58| language=en))</ref> by [[bel canto]] enthusiasts Patric Schmid<ref>((Cite web|title=The Guardian: Patric Schmid Obituary, 16 November 2005|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/nov/16/guardianobituaries.usa|website=Theguardain.com|date=16 November 2005))</ref> and Don White, Opera Rara's recordings are internationally distributed by [[Warner Classics]]. In September 2019, Italian conductor [[Carlo Rizzi (conductor)|Carlo Rizzi]] succeeded [[Mark Elder|Sir Mark Elder]] as Artistic Director.

==History==
Opera Rara launched in the 1970s with a series of concerts of 19th-century operatic arias performed at the [[Southbank Centre]], [[St John's, Smith Square|St John’s Smith Square]] and [[Wigmore Hall]] in London. The company presented its first complete opera - [[Giacomo Meyerbeer|Meyerbeer]]’s ''[[Il crociato in Egitto]]'' - in 1972 at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]], marking the first performance of the opera for more than 100 years. It subsequently performed at the [[Bath International Music Festival|Bath Festival]], [[Camden Festival]] (where its first staged production was [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]]’s ''[[Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali]]'') and [[Sadler's Wells Theatre|Sadler’s Wells]]. A rise in recordings pirated from [[BBC Radio 3]] broadcasts of Opera Rara performances led to a decision to issue its own recordings. In 1978, it released its first: the world premiere studio recording of Donizetti’s ''[[Ugo, conte di Parigi]]'' starring [[Janet Price]], [[Yvonne Kenny]], [[Della Jones]] and [[Christian du Plessis]]. The opera itself had been reconstructed by Patric Schmid from the composer’s autograph manuscript.

In July 2018 Opera Rara gave the world premiere of Donizetti's ''[[L'ange de Nisida|L’Ange de Nisida]]''<ref>((Cite web|title=The Observer: Gaetano Donizetti opera lost for 200 years set for London premiere, 18 February 2018|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/18/gaetano-donizetti-ange-de-nisida-lost-opera-rara-london-premiere|website=Theguardian.com|date=18 February 2018))</ref> in collaboration with the [[Royal Opera House|Royal Opera House, Covent Garden]]. A live recording taken from those performances was released in March 2019. The score had been reconstructed over a period of eight years by Italian musicologist Candida Mantica. The first complete staging of ''L’Ange de Nisida'' was subsequently given at the 2019 Donizetti Festival in [[Bergamo]].

The company has also performed and recorded works by other 19th-century composers, including [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]], [[Jules Massenet|Massenet]], [[Simon Mayr|Mayr]], [[Saverio Mercadante|Mercadante]], [[Giacomo Meyerbeer|Meyerbeer]], [[Giovanni Pacini|Pacini]], [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]] and [[Ambroise Thomas]]. Under Artistic Director [[Mark Elder|Sir Mark Elder]] (2011-2019), the company began to explore works by French composers of the same period including [[Charles Gounod|Gounod]] and [[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach]], as well as verismo operas from the turn of the 20th century. In November 2022, Michael Spyres and Ermonela Jaho were announced as Opera Rara's new Artist Ambassadors.

==Performances==
In recent years, Opera Rara has given annual concert performances of operas either at London’s [[Barbican Centre]] or [[Royal Festival Hall|The Royal Festival Hall]], usually preceded by a week–long recording in the studio. The company has collaborated the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]], [[Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment]], [[the Hallé]], [[Britten Sinfonia]] and [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]]; and with conductors [[David Parry (conductor)|David Parry]], [[Maurizio Benini]] and [[Daniele Rustioni]]. Opera Rara has now worked with [[Royal Opera House|Royal Opera House, Covent Garden]] four times and in addition to past appearances at the [[Edinburgh International Festival]], made its [[The Proms|BBC Proms]] debut with Rossini's ''[[Semiramide]]'' in 2016.<ref>((Cite web|title=BBC Radio 3: Professor Roger Parker and Flora Willson discuss Semiramide at the time of the BBC Proms in 2016|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p046xf3q|website=bbc.co.uk))</ref> Opera Rara’s first international collaboration was in 2019 with the [[Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana]].

==Recordings==
Since 1970, Opera Rara has released over 100 recordings including 60 complete operas - many of which are world premiere recordings - an “Il Salotto” series, artist collections, highlights, anthologies and compilations. Its studio recordings have received awards from the [[International Opera Awards]], [[International Classical Music Awards]], Opus Klassik Awards, [[Edison Klassiek award|Edison Klassiek Awards]] and Oper! Awards.

Over the years, Opera Rara has established close relationships with a number of singers, including [[Janet Price]], [[Bruce Ford (tenor)|Bruce Ford]], Colin Lee, [[Della Jones]], [[Yvonne Kenny]], [[Jennifer Larmore]] and [[Nelly Miricioiu|Nelly Mircioiu]] in the early years, and in recent years, [[Joyce El-Khoury]], [[Michael Spyres]], [[Ermonela Jaho]], [[Albina Shagimuratova]] and [[Daniela Barcellona]]. Opera Rara gave its Patron [[Renée Fleming]] her first recording opportunity in 1994 with the studio recording of Donizetti’s ''[[Rosmonda d'Inghilterra|Rosmonda d’Inghilterra]].''

==Publishing==
In 2020, Opera Rara announced a new relationship with the Italian publisher [[Casa Ricordi]], making its 47 performing editions of operas available to rent to opera houses and festivals around the world.

The Opera Rara Music Library – now The Foyle Opera Rara Collection – moved to a permanent home at [[Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama|The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama]] in 2018. Comprising more than five thousand volumes, the Collection includes first and early editions of 19th-century Italian opera scores by composers such as [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]], [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]], [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]], [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]], [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]], [[Simon Mayr|Mayr]], [[Saverio Mercadante|Mercadante]], [[Giovanni Pacini|Pacini]], [[Amilcare Ponchielli|Ponchielli]], [[Ruggero Leoncavallo|Leoncavallo]] and [[Pietro Mascagni|Mascagni]].

==Discography==
Below are all the operas, listed by composer, of which Opera Rara has produced complete recordings. The recordings indicated by one asterisk (*) are world premiere recordings:
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'''Bellini'''
*''[[Adelson e Salvini]]'' (ORC56)*
*''[[Il pirata]]'' (ORC45)
*''[[La straniera]]'' (ORC38)*
'''Donizetti'''
*''[[Belisario]]'' (ORC49)*
*''[[Caterina Cornaro]]'' (ORC48)
*''[[Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal]]'' (ORC33)
*''[[Elvida]]'' (ORC29)*
*''[[Emilia di Liverpool]]'' (ORC8)*
*''[[Francesca di Foix]]'' (ORC28)*
*''[[Gabriella di Vergy]]'' (ORC3)*
*''[[Il diluvio universale]]'' (ORC31)*
*''[[Il paria]]'' (ORC60)
*''[[Imelda de' Lambertazzi]]'' (ORC36)*
*''[[La romanzesca e l'uomo nero]]'' (ORC19)*
*''[[L'ange de Nisida]]'' (ORC58)*
*''[[L'assedio di Calais]]'' (ORC9)*
*''[[Le duc d'Albe]]'' (ORC54)*
*''[[L'esule di Roma]]'' (ORC64)*
*''[[Les Martyrs]]'' (ORC52)*
*''[[Linda di Chamounix]]'' (ORC43)
*''[[Maria de Rudenz]]'' (ORC16)*
*''[[Maria di Rohan]]'' (ORC44)*
*''[[Maria Padilla]]'' (ORC6)*
*''[[Ne m'oubliez pas]]'' (ORC4)*
*''[[Parisina]]'' (ORC40)
*''[[Pia de' Tolomei (opera)|Pia de' Tolomei]]'' (ORC30)*
*''[[Rita (opera)|Rita]]'' (ORC50)*
*''[[Roberto Devereux]]'' (ORC24)
*''[[Rosmonda d'Inghilterra]]'' (ORC13)*
*''[[Ugo, conte di Parigi]]'' (ORC1)*
*''[[Zoraida di Granata]]'' (ORC17)*
'''Gounod'''
*''[[La colombe|La Colombe]]'' (ORC53) 
'''Leoncavallo'''
*''[[Zazà]]'' (ORC55)
*''[[Zingari]]'' (ORC61)*
'''Massenet'''
*''[[Le Portrait de Manon]]'' (ORC47) (includes Berlioz: ''[[Les nuits d'été]]'') 
'''Mayr''' 
*''[[Ginevra di Scozia]]'' (ORC23)*
*''[[Medea in Corinto]]'' (ORC11)
'''Mercadante'''
*''[[Emma d'Antiochia]]'' (ORC26)*
*''[[Orazi e Curiazi]]'' (ORC12)*
*''[[Virginia]]'' (ORC39)*
*''[[Il proscritto]]'' (ORC62)*
'''Meyerbeer'''
*''[[Dinorah]]'' (ORC5)*
*''[[Il crociato in Egitto]]'' (ORC10)*
*''[[Margherita d'Anjou]]'' (ORC25)*
'''Offenbach'''
*''[[Christopher Columbus]]''  (ORC2)
*''[[Fantasio]]'' (ORC51)*
*''[[La Princesse de Trébizonde]]'' (ORC63)
*''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' (ORC7)*
*''[[Vert-Vert]]'' (ORC41)*
'''Pacini'''
*''[[Alessandro nell'Indie]]'' (ORC35)* 
*''[[Carlo di Borgogna]]'' (ORC21)*
*''[[Maria, regina d'Inghilterra]]'' (ORC15)*
'''Puccini'''
*''[[Le Willis]]'' (ORC59)
'''Rossini'''
*''[[Adelaide di Borgogna]]''  (ORC32)
*''[[Aureliano in Palmira]]''  (ORC46)*
*''[[Bianca e Falliero]]''  (ORC20)*
*''[[Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra]]'' (ORC22)
*''[[Ermione]]''  (ORC42)
*''[[La donna del lago]]''  (ORC34)
*''[[Otello]]''  (ORC18)
*''[[Ricciardo e Zoraide]]'' (ORC14)*
*''[[Semiramide]]''  (ORC57)
*''[[Zelmira]]''  (ORC27)
'''Thomas'''
*''[[La cour de Célimène]]'' (ORC37)*((Div col end))

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.opera-rara.com/ Opera Rara website]
* [https://www.operabase.com/companies/united-kingdom/opera-rara-1146/en Opera Base]

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