Opera Rara Chorus
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Puccini: Le Willis
RecommendedErmonela Jaho (Anna), Arsen Soghomonyan (Roberto), Brian Mulligan (Guglielmo)
Opera Rara Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder
Even at the age of 25 [Puccini] was already a composer of considerable skill, able to come up with musical ideas of exceptional quality. As the abandoned Anna, Ermonela Jaho is right inside... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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Mercadante: Il Proscritto
RecommendedRamón Vargas (Giorgio Argyll), Irene Roberts (Malvina Douglas), Elizabeth DeShong (Odoardo Douglas), Sally Matthews (Anna Ruthven), Iván Ayón-Rivas (Arturo Murray), Goderdzi Janelidze (Guglielmo Ruthven)
Britten Sinfonia, Opera Rara Chorus, Carlo Rizzi
Mercadante cocks an intelligent ear in the direction of a young Verdi. However, Mercadante is no faithful follower of fashion, as Carlo Rizzi, who rediscovered the opera in the Naples Conservatory... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Opera Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde
Anne-Catherine Gillet (Zanetta), Virginie Verrez (Le Prince Raphael), Antoinette Dennefeld (Régina), Josh Lovell (Le Prince Casimir), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Paul Daniel
a score that races and fizzes like a well-tuned steam train and telling teases about upwardly mobile social ambitions and an infantilised ruling class...the hero of this splendid set is Paul... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Opera Recording of the Year
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Leoncavallo: Zingari
RecommendedKrassimira Stoyanova (Fleana), Arsen Soghomonyan (Radu), Stephen Gaertner (Tamar), Lukasz Golinski (The Old Man), Opera Rara Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi
As expert an interpreter of Italian opera as one will find anywhere, conductor Carlo Rizzi seeks out the score’s full potential and his musical forces – the Opera Rara Chorus and the Royal Philharmonic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd September 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Donizetti: L'esule di Roma
Nicola Alaimo (Murena), Albina Shagimuratova (Argelia), Sergey Romanovsky (Settimio), Lluís Calvet i Pey (Publio), André Henriques (Lucio/Flavio), Kezia Bienek (Leontina)
Britten Sinfonia, Carlo Rizzi
Rizzi is no Donizetti apologist. Never are the orchestral gestures inflated to make the music seem imposing in the fashion of later composers. Lightness and firm but flexible pulse keep the... —
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Donizetti: Il Paria
RecommendedAlbina Shagimuratova (Neala), René Barbera (Idamore), Misha Kiria (Zarete), Marko Mimica (Akebare), Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder
Barbera proves up to the task, effortlessly pinging out top C sharps with abandon. With his generous, pure tone, he is well matched as the love interest of Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), a soprano... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th January 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Offenbach: Fantasio
Sarah Connolly, Brenda Rae & Russell Braun
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder
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Opera, December 2014, Recording of the Month
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