THE DONIZETTI SONG PROJECT Opera Rara Playlist with 75 video clips London 2024
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: THE DONIZETTI SONG PROJECT
- Composer: Donizetti Gaetano
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Wigmore Hall, London, UK
- Recorded: 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Rosa Feola, Ermonela Jaho, Lawrence Brownlee, Nicola Alaimo, Michael Spyres, Kezia Bienek, Katia Ledoux
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Carlo Rizzi, James Southall, Anna Tilbrook, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Opera Rara
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The Donizetti Song Project is one of Opera Rara’s most ambitious projects in its fifty-year history is to record the complete solo songs of Gaetano Donizetti. A handful of these songs have been long known and often performed; many more were listed in specialist catalogues but very rarely if ever performed; others still were completely unknown or thought lost and have now come to light.
Recent research connected with this project has made clear that, in total, Donizetti wrote some 200 solo songs over the course of his thirty-year career. Making modern editions of this vast corpus has been a challenging task: the songs are dispersed in European libraries and beyond, often having been casually given away at the time of composition (typically as a present to the dedicatee).
In their totality, these compositions make a powerful case for Donizetti as a key figure in nineteenth-century domestic music-making: someone whose achievements in this area deserve to be better known; a body of work that, single-handedly, makes a powerful argument for the importance of the Italian “school” in a field long dominated by German and French composers.