Opera Rara and Royal Welsh College invite you to explore undiscovered bel canto treasures from the Foyle Opera Rara Collection in a concert with mezzo-soprano Kezia Bienek and pianist James Southall. This lunchtime concert, curated and introduced by musicologist and bel canto specialist Roger Parker, features songs and operatic excerpts by Gaetano Donizetti and his contemporaries, mixing well-known examples of the mezzo-soprano repertoire with songs that have been hidden in the archives since their creation in the early 19th century.

PROGRAMME: 

Bei labbri che Amore formò by Gaetano Donizetti
Che non mi disse un dì! by Gaetano Donizetti
Occhio nero incendiator by Gaetano Donizetti
Sull’onda cheta e bruna by Gaetano Donizetti
La conocchia by Gaetano Donizetti
La Fiancée du timbalier by Gaetano Donizetti
Je ne me plaignis pas by Gaetano Donizetti
La primavera by Saverio Mercadante
La Folle de S.te Hélène by Gaetano Donizetti
“Cruda sorte” from L’italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini