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Rara mediums: for twenty-five years, Opera Rara has built a catalogue of recordings by neglected bel canto masters such as Mayr, Mercadante and Pacini.(Company Profile)(Biography)
It must have seemed a crazy, idea at the time, and perhaps it still does. In London, in the early 1970s, two enthusiasts decided to present concerts of forgotten operas. They started simply, with a handful of singers and musicians performing excerpts. Then they advanced to complete works in concert with full orchestra. Next, they put some of these works onstage for the first time in a century or more. Finally, in 1978, they began to record them.
"Twenty-five years later, Opera Rara--a unique enterprise in the recording industry--boasts a remarkable catalogue that includes not only works by Rossini, Donizetti, Offenbach and Meyerbeer but major pieces by neglected ...
- OBITUARIES Don White
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Elizabeth Forbes May 6, 1995 700+ words
...he co-founded Opera Rara with Patric Schmid...Teatrale staged at the Camden Festival as The Primadonna...Minnesota. Meanwhile Opera Rara was producing up...curiazi was staged by Opera Rara for Camden Festival in 1981, while...
- Camden Festival
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Camden Festival. Annual arts festival in the London Borough of Camden, founded in 1954 and devoted especially to operatic revivals and first...
- Camden festival to host documentary forum
- Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME ABIGAIL CURTIS; OF THE NEWS STAFF September 25, 2009 700+ words
ROCKPORT - Maine documentary filmmakers and would-be filmmakers, take note: You are not alone. That's the message that Ben Fowlie, the founder and producer of the Camden International Film Festival, to be held next weekend around the midcoast, would like his audience to take away from next Friday's
- Adelaide di Borgogna.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil March 1, 2007 700+ words
ADELAIDE DI BORGOGNA Rossini Opera Rara ORC 32 While admittedly an opera rara, Adelaide di Borgogna is no forgotten masterpiece...2005 Edinburgh International Festival, are all Opera Rara stalwarts, including soprano Majella Cullagh...
- CDs: LES VEPRES SICILIENNES.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil March 22, 2005 700+ words
Verdi Verdi Originals, Volume 3 Opera Rara: ORCV303 (3 CDs) This Opera Rara recording marks the debut of Verdi's Les vepres...Taylor is a suitably tragic Montfort. As with all Opera Rara recordings, this set is presented in a handsome...
- Baritone James Westman has recorded a rarely performed Donizetti opera, Imelda...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada September 1, 2007 700+ words
...and tenor Marcello Giordani. This recording will be released on the Opera Rara label later this season. In 2008, Westman returns to London to record...role in Federico Ricci's 1841 opera, Corrado d'Altamura, also for Opera Rara.
- Recordings -- Donizetti's Poliuto by Teatro Donizetti Chorus and others under...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Vasta, Stephen F February 3, 1996 700+ words
...Rudenz Andrew, Jenkins; Greager, Du Plessis, M. King; Opera Rara Chorus, Philomusica Orch., Francis. Memories HR-4588...presumably unauthorized outtake of an October 27, 1974, Opera Rara concert performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, might...
- Don Carlos.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil November 1, 2006 700+ words
DON CARLOS Verdi Opera Rara ORCV 305 (4CDs) This first release on CD of the complete Don Carlos is the final installment of Opera Rara's series of original Verdi scores produced and broadcast by the BBC in the 1970s and early '80s. Given the...