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Opera Rara is a British non-profit recording company, founded in the early 1970s by American Patric Schmid〔Elizabeth Forbes,("Obituary: Patric Schmid: Co-Founder of Opera Rara" ), ''The Independent'' (London), 14 November 2005〕〔Patrick O'Connor, ("Patric Schmid: Impresario dedicated to the revival of bel canto operas" ), ''The Guardian'', London, 15 November 2005〕 and Englishman Don White〔Elizabeth Forbes, ("Obituary: Don White" ), ''The Independent'' (London), 6 May 1995〕 to promote concerts of rare and/or forgotten operas by ''bel canto'' era composers such as Italian composers Gaetano Donizetti, Giovanni Pacini, Saverio Mercadante, and Federico Ricci, as well as French composers of the 1830s forward such as Giacomo Meyerbeer.〔Patric Schmid, "Opera Rara and its Donizetti Recordings", in Bellotto (ed.), p. 419: "Since 1970 Opera Rara has been performing the operas of the nineteenth century. In those twenty-two years, we have revived operas by Mercadante, Offenbach, Pacini, and Meyerbeer."〕 The company's activities were later expanded to include the "Verdi Originals" series, which included the BBC's presentations of original versions of operas by Giuseppe Verdi which are better known in later, revised versions. An example of this group would be Verdi's ''Macbeth''. For many years Opera Rara was sponsored heavily by the Peter Moores Foundation. In 2011 Stephen Revell, the managing director of Opera Rara announced that conductor Mark Elder would join as new artistic director.〔(Interview in Spanish ) "Durante gran parte de la historia de Opera Rara, el sello se ha beneficiado de la filantropía de Peter Moores, hombre de negocios con 79 años a sus espaldas, quien ofreció a la entonces joven Joan Sutherland la cantidad de dinero necesaria para que interpretase roles de óperas desconocidas. Revell concluye que “con la desaparición del apoyo que nos otorgaba la Peter Moores Foundation, hemos tenido que reinventarnos para seguir llevando a cabo la visión de Patric. Necesitamos sobrevivir y desarrollarnos como una entidad de importancia, plena de salud y vigor.”"〕 ==Discography== The label's first "complete" opera, Meyerbeer's ''Il crociato in Egitto'', was performed in concert in 1972 and featured the soprano Janet Price. It was the work's first revival in over 100 years, and was of such great interest to record collectors that it was almost immediately issued by several "pirates". Donizetti's ''Maria Padilla'' (again featuring Price) followed soon afterwards. Other early concerts included ''Maria de Rudenz'', ''Torquato Tasso'', and ''Rosmonda d'Inghilterra'' (Donizetti), ''L'Etoile du Nord'' (Meyerbeer)), as well as two Mercadante operas:''Orazi e Curiazi'' and ''Virginia''. All of these represented the first performances of these works in many years. Concert performances, leading to the issuance of recordings by the company, continue to be given at London's Southbank Centre with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. Prominent amongst conductors of these works is David Parry and Mark Elder. In 1977, Opera Rara issued its first recording of Donizetti's ''Ugo, conte di Parigi'', with a cast including Janet Price, Yvonne Kenny, Della Jones, and Christian du Plessis. Other singers who have participated in Opera Rara's recordings include Renée Fleming, Jennifer Larmore, Nelly Miricioiu, Vesselina Kasarova, Chris Merritt, Marco Lazzara, Mark Stone, James Westman, Bruce Ford, and Anthony Michaels-Moore. In March 2014, Opera Rara celebrated its 50th complete opera recording with the release of Donizetti’s Rita (Deux hommes et une femme). Conducted by Artistic Director Sir Mark Elder, Rita was the first studio recording of the newly restored critical edition of the score. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Opera Rara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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