Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Performer: Opera Rara Chorus
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia
Conductor: Mark Elder
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Opera Rara
Release: 2021
Size: 0.99 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Albina Shagimuratova, soprano
Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
Rene Barbera, tenor
Misha Kiria, baritone
Marko Mimica, bass-baritone
Thomas Atkins, tenor
Opera Rara Chorus
Britten Sinfonia
Mark Elder, conductor
01. Act 1: Preludio
02. Act 1: “In questa a te sacrata antica selva” (Chorus)
03. Act 1: “Oggi ei riede!” (Akebare, Chorus)
04. Act 1: “Il Pontifice degna” (Chorus, Akebare)
05. Act 1: “Orrendo sogno!” (Neala, Akebare)
06. Act 1: “Parea che mentre l’àloe” (Neala, Akebare, Chorus)
07. Act 1: “O tu, luce del vero” (Chorus, Akebare, Neala)
08. Act 1: “Ah, che un raggio di speranza” (Neala, Akebare, Chorus)
09. Act 1: “emina pompa nel gran tempio” (Akebare)
10. Act 1: “Sì, decisi…” (Neala, Zaide)
11. Act 1: “Tergi, o Dio” (Zarete, Neala, Zaide)
12. Act 1: “Qual tu ti sia, qui t’inoltra” (Neala, Zarete, Empsaele, Zaide)
13. Act 1: “Ah no, che il core” (Zarete)
14. Act 1: “Là dove al ciel s’estolle” (Idamore)
15. Act 1: “Lontano, io più l’amai” (Idamore)
16. Act 1: “Fin dove sorgono” (Idamore)
17. Act 1: “Ma chi è colui?” (Idamore, Zarete)
18. Act 1: “D’un Akebar la figlia?” (Zarete)
19. Act 1: “Salvi, o Nume” (Chorus, Zarete, Idamore)
20. Act 1: “Non m’obliasti” (Zarete, Idamore)
21. Act 1: “Lascerò colei che adoro?” (Idamore, Zarete)
22. Act I: “Discendi” (Empsaele, Akebare, Idamore, Neala)
23. Act 2: “A un culto barbaro” (Idamore, Neala)
24. Act 2: “La mano tua” (Idamore, Neala)
25. Act 2: “Tu? Mia?” (Idamore, Neala)
26. Act 2: “Sarai tu sempre, o caro” (Neala, Idamore)
27. Act 2: “Notte, ch’eterna a me parevi” (Zarete)
28. Act 2: “Qui pel figlio una madre gridava” (Zarete)
29. Act 2: “Mai fulgido così” (Chorus, Zarete)
30. Act 2: “Questa adunque, o figlio ingrato” (Zarete)
31. Act 2: “Brama, autor dell’universo” (Chorus)
32. Act 2: “Quanto di lieto” (Idamore, Akebare, Neala)
33. Act 2: “Da sì caro e dolce istante” (Idamore, Neala, Akebare, Empsaele, Chorus)
34. Act 2: “Ma tu, sommo Bramano” (Zarete, Akebare, Neala, Idamore)
35. Act 2: “Deh un folle ardir” (Neala, Akebare, Zarete, Idamore, Chorus)
36. Act 2: “La sorte di noi miseri” (Idamore, Zarete, Neala, Akebare)
Set in 16th-century India, Il Paria is a powerful and moving story of impossible love, social barriers and religious intolerance. Donizetti was particularly proud of his work, reusing many of its melodies in future compositions. Returning to Opera Rara following our multi award-winning recording of Rossini’s Semiramide, Albina Shagimuratova leads a stellar cast including René Barbera, singing one of the most demanding roles ever written for tenor, and the talented Georgian baritone Misha Kiria in title character.
Opera Rara returns to Donizetti when it presents another rarity, Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo, in an entirely new performing edition. Carlo Rizzi, the company’s newly appointed Artistic Director, conducts Britten Sinfonia in their second collaboration with Opera Rara; Albina Shagimuratova once again takes the lead soprano role. The week before the Barbican concert, Opera Rara will record Il furioso, with the album scheduled for release in 2022.
Opera Rara was founded by Patric Schmid and Don White in 1970 with a huge ambition: to document all Donizetti’s operas through recordings and, where necessary, new performing editions. Under Sir Mark Elder’s eight-year tenure, Opera Rara expanded its repertoire to include French grand opera, French operetta and Italian verismo works.
Whilst the impact of the global pandemic meant postponing the release of Il Paria by nine months and the recording and concert of Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo by a year, the company celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020 with another of its close collaborators: Ermonela Jaho. Following her debut Wigmore Hall recital presented by Opera Rara in February, in September 2020, the company released Jaho’s debut recital disc – Anima Rara – exploring music championed by the Italian soprano Rosina Storchio, the creator of Cio-Cio San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. As The New Yorker noted, “Jaho’s gentle timbre, nuanced inflections, and, above all, tonal clarity are enchanting, revealing a compelling portrait of Storchio’s art—and her own.”