In October 2024, Germán Enrique Alcántara gave the UK premiere performance of Ana Carrique's song cycle Coplas puntanas (1939) at a recital at the Royal Ballet and Opera

A year later, we got to hear 'A Patay huele la luna' from the same cycle for our 55th season launch at Temple Music Foundation

One month to go now and counting until our revival of the final 1921 version of Puccini's La rondine at the Barbican - Carlo Rizzi conducts BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Our Magda, Ermonela Jaho, of course needs no introduction ✨

Here's your #FactOfTheDay - milonga is a type of Argentinian ballroom dance & Alberto Williams' 'Milonga calabacera' is one of the funniest songs in the repertoire says Germán Enrique Alcántara.

It forms part of the Canciones de la Pampa y la Sierra cycle from 1919: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9eQ...

We'd like to introduce you today to three members of our upcoming revival of Puccini's La rondine in its final 1921 version on 5 Dec at the Barbican:

🎶 Welsh tenor Robert Lewis as Gobin
🎵 British bass William Thomas as Crébillon/Il maggiodormo
🎼British bass David Shipley as Périchaud

More soon!

Happy #WorldOperaDay! We're happy to share on this day a recent interview with our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi on #OperaBoxScore with presenter Oliver Camacho.

Listen here 🎧: ow.ly/2kEK50XhHEN

And let us know how you're celebrating this weekend!

2. Donizetti Songs Volume 3 with Michael Spyres and Carlo Rizzi.

Listen to both via your favourite streaming platform including via our Linktree here: ow.ly/21b150X7Kle

#ForYourGrammyConsideration #Grammys

Exciting news from Opera Rara today - we have entered the GRAMMYs for the first time and two albums are currently up for
consideration:

1. The original 1857 version of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra with @thehalle.bsky.social, conductor Sir Mark Elder and Germán Enrique Alcántara in the title role.

Just in time for the weekend - read our first #OR55 newsletter with many updates incl. our Donizetti Song Project with Ermonela Jaho and Carlo Rizzi...

And nomination news for our Simon Boccanegra release from the Gramophone Awards and International Opera Awards 👏: ow.ly/32Fb50WZrF3

What's the connection between Donizetti's 'Odi d’un uom che muore' and Carlos López Buchardo’s 'Les roses Nöel'? If you join us next Friday 10 October for the launch of our new season with Germán Enrique Alcántara and Anna Tilbrook at Temple Music Foundation you'll find out!

Thank you to Germán 🙏

Exactly one year ago to the day, we were named Gramophone magazine's Label of the Year!

Thank you so much to Martin Cullingford and his team for all the amazing coverage and collaborations over the last year.

We look forward to this year's Awards in a few weeks' time!

An exquisite and enlightening treasure chest' - Forum Opéra ➡️ Donizetti Songs Vols 5&6 are officially out now featuring Ermonela Jaho and Carlo Rizzi

This is an excerpt from Vol. 5 - 'Eterno amore a fè' written when Donizetti was still in his 20s - discover it here today: ow.ly/1h0z50X2J3X

Our first collaboration took place last summer when pianist Anna Tilbrook joined forces with Katia Ledoux for an evening of rare songs in French by composers such as Donizetti, Berlioz, Chaminade, Viardot and...

Clémence de Grandval 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdHN...

Have you discovered our YouTube channel yet? There's a wealth of content to discover on it including our YouTube Shorts series featuring incredible moments captured in our recording sessions.

Like this one featuring Ermonela Jaho❣️, recording her debut recital album, Anima Rara, with us in 2020

And what better way to round off our overview of our #DonizettiSongProject activities this season than with this incredible moment in 'No: tu non m’hai tradita!' performed by Rosa Feola and Sally Pryce last November @wigmore-hall.org.uk

We're looking forward to next year's record release so much!

What does summertime mean for you? If you like to relax, unwind and enjoy life more slowly... we have the perfect thing for you ⬇️

Enjoy our Opera for the Summer playlist now featuring some of our favourite tracks from our operatic discoveries 🎧 ow.ly/5m9F50Wcil1

Let us know what you think!

Our May newsletter is here! If you follow us on socials, you may already know everything but perhaps you didn't know that we've not just prepared one but *two* YouTube streams for you to enjoy including Ellie Neate and Florent Mourier from 1 June 🎶🎉

More details right here: ow.ly/uHXG50VXCpb

This Sunday 1 June, we'll be premiering on YouTube our first summer stream: Ellie Neate and Florent Mourier in songs by Donizetti, Brambilla, Liszt, Malibran, Pacini and Viardot ✨

This is an extract from one of two modern-day Donizetti premieres performed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Kn...