Learn more about the opera you love with our Artistic Dramaturg Roger Parker.
Join us on Zoom for Opera Rara’s member “book club”, Reading with Roger. Roger Parker is joined by musicologist Ralph Locke, emeritus professor at the Eastman School of Music, to talk about Offenbach.
Following the release of Opera Rara Classics Rossini in 1819, Artistic Dramaturg Roger Parker leads a discussion on opera in 1819.
Roger Parker is joined by American musicologist Roger Pines in a discussion of two articles written by Mr. Pines. Learn more about two of Massenet’s most famous operas and his lesser known works.
Following our performance of Leoncavallo’s Zingari, verismo specialist Ditlev Rindom joins Roger Parker to lead us through a discussion about this operatic genre.
Learn about the life of Gaetano Donizetti and view our Zoom discussion as we talk through our reading and listening list, guided by Roger Parker.
In the lead up to our release of our new Opera Rara Classics box set, Donizetti in the 1830’s, we will discuss this decade that was a robust period in opera’s history.