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For Volume 4 of our Donizetti Song Project, we were joined by the inimitable duo of Giulio Zappa and Marie-Nicole Lemieux. ‘Lemieux and Zappa leave the listener wanting more music by the end’ – @OperaActual This is an extract from track 3 – ‘Del colle in sul pendio’ 🎶

'The combination of @CarloRizziMusic and @Spikelmyers is a match made in heaven' - @LimelightArtsAu We continue with our Donizetti Song Project studio 💿 highlights this week with Vol. 3 🎶 This is from track 8 - 'Berglied "Rings ruht die grüne Alpenhut"'

Before the Donizetti Songs with @NicolaAlaimo, there was L'esule di Roma restored by our Repertoire Consultant Roger Parker and released in 2024 with Nicola as the Roman senator Murena. L'esule di Roma will be performed this autumn at the 2026 Donizetti Opera Festival ❗

The gift of 🎶 this Friday from us to you - Volume 8 of our Donizetti Song Project is now available to pre-order with @NicolaAlaimo @CarloRizziMusic Get ready to complete your collection - this is our 1st pre-release track 'Addio Brunetta' available now on streaming platforms 🎧

Before the songs for bass-baritone, we released the songs for baritone in Donizetti Songs Vol. 2 with @NicolaAlaimo 💡 This is Nicola in the studio with @CarloRizziMusic and cellist Hetty Snell recording track 7 - 'L'amor funesto'

As the final volume of our Donizetti Songs cycle approaches, we’re looking back at some studio highlights from the past three years ✨ We start with @Brownleetenor @CarloRizziMusic in 'L'amante spagnuolo' - track 1, Volume 1 🎶

"A natural extension of Paris was Vienna... where Donizetti got offered the position of Kammerkapellmeister" to Emperor Ferdinand I in 1842. 💡 Find out about composer's last years, in our final episode of Lives in Song: Donizetti with Flora Willson: ow.ly/2QSc50YzAhN

Happy Monday opera lovers! Our May Recording of the Month has been revealed - it's Rossini's Bianca e Falliero feat. Majella Cullagh and Jennifer Larmore 📸 in the title roles. Recorded in 2000, this was our very first collaboration with the @LPOrchestra: youtu.be/BVigtjwrwIo

Toi toi toi to everyone performing with our Artistic Director @CarloRizziMusic this Sunday 3 May celebrating 80 years of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales (@NationCymru)! Here's a welcome message from Carlo himself ✨ ow.ly/MAFp50YQCVw

Modern-day Mercadante premiere: lpo.org.uk/event/opera-ra…

"Volume 7 feat. @RosaFeolaSinger @CarloRizziMusic is one of the finest achievements of the series" - said @rivistamusica of our #DonizettiSongProject 🙏 Our next major project with Rosa and Carlo in May 2027 is now on sale via @LPOrchestra and selling fast 👀 ⤵️

Full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=kQX3bx…

'Giacomo Puccini' and 'Artificial Intelligence'? Yes, Puccini and AI, and the composer's love for experimentation is explored in the latest episode of Lives in Song: Puccini, now available to watch in full on our YouTube channel. Our host Flora Willson spoke with @DRindom ⬇️

Check out 👀 our album of photos from our recording sessions with @NicolaAlaimo @CarloRizziMusic + special guests for Volumes 8 and 2 of our Donizetti Song Project 🎶 Pre-order details for the final Volume in the cycle, coming up... shortly! ow.ly/whQC50YR0Z0

Check out our album of photos from our recording sessions in 2025 and 2023 with @NicolaAlaimo @CarloRizziMusic + special guests for Volumes 8 and 2 of our Donizetti Song Project 🎶 Pre-order details for the final Volume in the cycle, coming up... shortly! facebook.com/media/set/?set…

Happy Monday opera lovers! Our April Recording of the Month - Pacini's Carlo di Borgogna feat. Bruce Ford, Elizabeth Futral and Jennifer Larmore is now on YouTube 👀 'Any lover of Italian opera will find this 💿 an absolutely essential purchase' ⬇️ ow.ly/clXQ50YQA8Z

And if you'd rather a spot of Puccini tonight instead, the fifth episode of Lives in Song season 2 airs from 6pm CET. @DRindom and host Flora Willson trace the composer's later years starting with the disastrous premiere of Madama Butterfly in 1904. ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=kQX3bx…

Tonight from 7pm CET comes part 2 of our collaboration with the Donizetti Opera Festival last year - feat. their young artists in Donizetti songs curated by our Repertoire Consultant Roger Parker and @zapigu Available, along with part 1, until 17 May 🎶 ow.ly/eUtW50YOXgO

About last night... thank you so much to everyone who joined us @Bechstein_Hall for our final Salon Series recital this season with @AnnaTilbrook @SorayaMafi and Robert Lewis. 🎶

@KeysGlobetrot @the_halle @LPOrchestra @BBCSO @CarloRizziMusic Thank you for your kind words!!

@OperaRara @the_halle @LPOrchestra @BBCSO @CarloRizziMusic A modern-day premiere of Mercadante and a world premiere Puccini recording! This is exactly why OperaRara is indispensable 🙏 What a 56th season!

📢Revealing our 56th season 🎶Offenbach's Barkouf: UK premiere @the_halle 🎶Mercadante's Il campo de' crociati: modern-day premiere @LPOrchestra 💿Puccini's La rondine (final, 1921 version): world premiere recording @BBCSO Led by our Artistic Director @CarloRizziMusic