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Rewriting Operatic History: Lost and Forgotten Operas Restored
Artist family: Carlo Rizzi, Ermonela Jaho & Michael Spyres
Next up - Donizetti Songs at Wigmore Hall 16.6.26 with Carlo Rizzi & Nicola Alaimo

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05/06/2026

📢 Out today 📢

Donizetti Songs Volume 8 featuring Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi and Nicholas Korth.

Physical, digital, streaming and on YouTube 🎧

You can now officially enjoy the COMPLETE Donizetti Songs Collection 🥂

Video featuring Lawrence Brownlee (Vol. 1), Nicola Alaimo (Vol. 2), Michael Spyres - BariTenor (Vol. 3), Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Giulio Zappa (Vol. 4), Ermonela Jaho (Vols. 5&6), Sarah Dufresne (two bonus digital releases!), Rosa Feola (Vol. 7) and finally, Nicola Alaimo once again in Vol. 8 🎶

04/06/2026

In this month's BBC Music Magazine, discover what Nicola Alaimo's best and worst experiences were in his career to date.

Hint, both were Teatro alla Scala - Verdi's Falstaff and Bellini's Il Pirata, but which was his and which was his ?

And!

Don't forget to join us tonight if you can, to hear him at our final Donizetti Song Project launch with Carlo Rizzi. The launch starting at 6pm BST/7pm CET will be immediately followed by the YouTube premiere of Volume 8
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03/06/2026

Available for another week is our concert of French, English, Italian and German songs sung by Soraya Mafi and Robert Lewis - Tenor on our YouTube channel 🎶

Recorded Bechstein Hall with Anna Tilbrook - it's already had over 34,000 views 🎶

This is an excerpt from the final duet by Donizetti - 'Uno sguardo di nera pupilla'
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01/06/2026

Happy release week! Our focus track from Donizetti Songs Volume 8, 'Viva il matrimonio' is a humourous yet sentimental wedding song, likely commissioned from Donizetti by the father of a bride.

Written in Naples in 1843, the same year Don Pasquale premiered in Paris, it evokes the sophisticated charm of opera buffa: a perfect mix of humour, elegance and heartfelt sentiment.

Available exclusively now on our website and YouTube ahead of Friday's official release date featuring Nicola Alaimo and our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi.

27/05/2026

Last November, we released two additional Donizetti song tracks with Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne - one in French and one in Italian - with Carlo Rizzi.

You can listen to both on your favourite streaming platform or via our YouTube channel 🎶

This is an extract from 'La Bergère du Tyrol “Ô la belle campagne”' - never recorded before and only recently identfied as part of Donizetti's canon in 2022 by musicologist Ruben Vernazza.

26/05/2026

Get your diaries out! This summer, we'll be streaming 10 of our concerts for free on our YouTube channel. Starting Friday 26 June with Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi and Hetty Snell recorded on 16 June at Wigmore Hall.

Friday 26 June: Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi and Hetty Snell at Wigmore Hall
Friday 3 July: Katia Ledoux and at Temple Music Foundation
Friday 17 July: Germán Enrique Alcántara and Anna Tilbrook at Temple Music Foundation
Friday 10 July: Joanna Harries - mezzo-soprano and Anna Tilbrook at Mansfield Street
Friday 24 July: Ermonela Jaho, Carlo Rizzi and Marco Rizzi at Wigmore Hall
Friday 31 July: Lluís Calvet i Pey - Baríton and James Southall at The Lansdowne Club, Mayfair
Friday 7 August: Rosa Feola, Carlo Rizzi and Sally Pryce at Wigmore Hall
Friday 14 August: Soraya Mafi, Robert Lewis - Tenor and Anna Tilbrook at Bechstein Hall
Friday 21 August: Julieth Lozano - Soprano and Anna Tilbrook at Bechstein Hall
Friday 28 August: Michael Spyres - BariTenor, Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Giulio Zappa at Cadogan Hall

Further details including programmes and times can be found here: https://ow.ly/rn0T50YBFw6

25/05/2026

'What makes this set superior is David Parry’s sensational conducting' - San Francisco Examiner

David Parry conducts ‪London Philharmonic Orchestra‬ starring Majella Cullagh, Jennifer Larmore, Barry Banks, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Gabriella Colecchia, Simon Bailey, Ryland Davies and Dominic Natoli.

Enjoy our May Recording of the Month now in full, remastered as part of our 'Rossini in 1819' Opera Rara Classics boxset 🎶 https://ow.ly/cs7I50Yy3wT

22/05/2026

A song can be no less difficult than an aria from an opera - and our second pre-release track from Donizetti Songs Volume 8 is a case in point. Look at the concentration on the artists' faces❗

'Le Départ pour le chasse' (1841) with Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi and Nicholas Korth is now available on all streaming platforms ahead of our 5 June official release date 🎧

Donizetti meets Weber's Die Freischütz (1821) with this unusual combination of voice, piano and French horn conjuring the world of the hunt 🎶

19/05/2026

Welcome to our May newsletter 🗞️

In which we invite you to join us to celebrate the finale of our Donizetti Song Project - and our 55th season - on 4 June, online and on 16 June at Wigmore Hall 🎶

On 4 June, we launch the final Volume of our Donizetti Songs recording cycle on YouTube ➡️
On 16 June, we present our final 'Donizetti & Friends' recital and final public performance of the season ➡️

Details of our 56th season are available too ❗

Pictured 📸 Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi and Nicholas Korth in the recording studio

18/05/2026

In one month's time, we present our final public performance of our 55th season. It'll also be our final 'Donizetti & Friends' recital at Wigmore Hall which first launched in 2023❗We'll be celebrating the culmination of our Donizetti Songs recording cycle 💿

With Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi on piano and Hetty Snell on cello - songs by Donizetti, Rossini, Mercadante and Bellini 🎶

Carlo and Nicola will also be signing CDs (Donizetti Songs Volumes 2 and 8) 👀

Will you be joining us on 16 June? https://ow.ly/nqzH50YxKCW

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Tuesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
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