Opera Rara will continue its mission to winner lesser-known works both on stage and in the studio with a special focus following season on Donizetti. To tag the composer’s two hundred twenty-fifth anniversary, the company will undertake a three-year Donizetti Song Project, which, beginning in September two thousand twenty-three, will feature performances at London’s Wigmore Corridor and recordings of almost two hundred of the composer’s songs – many for the first time.

Artists will comprise tenor Lawrence Brownlee, baritone Étienne Dupuis, and Opera Rara Artistic Ambassadors Ermonela Jaho and Michael Spyres, as well as Opera Rara Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi. Meanwhile, on twenty-third May at Cadogan Corridor in London, Opera Rara will undertake its twenty-seventh Donizetti revival with a concert performance and recording of his one thousand eight hundred twenty-eight work L’esule di Roma, due for release in spring two thousand twenty-four.

The announcement was made as portion of an unveiling of Opera Rara’s two thousand twenty-three/four season, which will also draw attention to the treasures and rarities in the Foyle Opera Rara Collection held at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a series of lunchtime concerts, an exhibition and a tour of the Collection during the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World week (twenty-three June).

The Salon Concert Series in London will continue to highlight emerging talent, and there will be also be two further complete opera releases: the premiere recording of Mercadante’s Il Proscritto (fourteen April, two thousand twenty-three), followed by Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde in September.

There’s also a new relationship with World Heart Beat Music Academy, which will look youthful people looking to start a career in the music industry joining Opera Rara behind the scenes at the recording of L’esule di Roma, while Opera Rara artists will keep a special Opera Insider event at the new World Heart Beat venue in Embassy Gardens, London on ninth May.