Black Friday Sales, a new podcast series on the life of Puccini, two new Donizetti tracks recorded with Sarah Dufresne and our Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi available now, and more... 🎧

Read our November newsletter here ➡️ mailchi.mp/fc4cbd6e2ea7...

Are you ready to be blown away? Ths time next week, we return to London's Barbican to present the final, 1921 version of Puccini's La rondine.

This is a studio clip of Carlo Rizzi conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ermonela Jaho in Magda's Act 1 aria "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" ✨

Join us this Friday on our YouTube channel for the launch of our second series of Lives in Song hosted by Flora Willson. This season we turn our focus to the life of Giacomo Puccini. Joining Flora for the first episode is musicologist Ditlev Rindom.

More info here ➡️ opera-rara.com/podcast_seri...

Donizetti's 'Luna e stelle della notte' was found in Sweden's Nydahl Collection. It was recorded for the 1st time ever by Marie-Nicole Lemieux in Volume 4 of our #DonizettiSongProject, and performed live for the 1st time in modern times by Germán Enrique Alcántara 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs7z...

To all opera lovers headed to this year's Donizetti Opera Festival! This Sunday, join our Donizetti brunch to hear the Bottega Donizetti young artists in a selection of solo and ensemble pieces.

Including this beautiful duet sung here by Marie-Nicole Lemieux & Michael Spyres: ow.ly/47a250XpRtC

Carlos López Buchardo (1881–1948) was one of the founding figures of Argentinian classical music.

This autumnal lament - 'Canción de Ausencia' (Song of Absence) - sung by Germán Enrique Alcántara with Anna Tilbrook is one of Buchardo's most famous art songs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6G...

One month to go now and counting until our revival of the final 1921 version of Puccini's La rondine at the Barbican - Carlo Rizzi conducts BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Our Magda, Ermonela Jaho, of course needs no introduction ✨

📢 To all Lawrence Brownlee fans based in the UK 📢 Lawrence will be in London for one night only @wigmore-hall.org.uk on 22 November.

His programme with Iain Burnside starts with four songs from our #DonizettiSongProject including the beautiful 'Tu porgesti a me l'anello': ow.ly/tfC750XmqG3

'I find his personality incredibly attractive... he comes across as such a warm and positive human, and seems to attract similar, sociable kinds of people'

'Why was Donizetti important?' asked one Lives in Song viewer... This is how our musicologist experts answered ‼️

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