Opera Rara has announced two new international partnerships at the start of its 55th season.

The company’s newest partners are the Donizetti Opera Festival and Bloomsbury Publishing.

This season launches the collaboration with Opera Rara and Bergamo’s Donizetti Opera Festival. Over the course of six concerts across three years, all of Donizetti’s solo songs will be performed by young artists from the Bottega Donizetti program led by pianist Giulio Zappa. The concerts are part of the 2025 Donizetti Opera Festival organized by the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti will take place Nov. 14-30.

Starting in the 2026-27 season, Opera Rara’s entire recording catalogue will be made available via the Bloomsbury Video Library platform, serving a global community of students, scholars, instructors and librarians. Also included will be Opera Rara’s recording booklets featuring essays by leading musicologists and cultural historians specializing in 19th and early 20th-century opera, as well as video material including interviews with artists who have worked with the charity over the past half-century to bring lost and forgotten operas back to life. The initial partnership is set to last for 10 years.

Reflecting on the two new partnerships, Opera Rara’s Chief Executive Henry Little said in a press release, “At Opera Rara, we are rewriting operatic history by bringing lost and forgotten masterpieces back to life for global audiences to enjoy. These new collaborations with Bloomsbury Publishing and the Donizetti Opera Festival build upon our valued and ongoing international partnerships with Warner Classics and Ricordi. Together they will extend the reach and impact of our work even further, particularly reaching a younger generation of students, emerging artists and enthusiasts. As we approach our 60th anniversary in 2030, these partnerships exemplify our unwavering commitment to discovery, education, and artistic excellence – ensuring that the brilliance of Opera Rara’s 55 years of live operatic archaeology continues to inspire, captivate, and endure for generations to come.”

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