This broadcast was recorded live in May 2025 as a part of Opera Rara’s 2024/25 Salon Series.

Opera Rara’s 2024/25 Salon Series came to a close on 8 May 2025 with a night of rare songs featuring mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries and pianist Anna Tilbrook. Harries, who made her Opera Rara debut in Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde in 2022, sang a programme of newly discovered songs by Donizetti and his contemporaries, including rarely performed songs by women composers of the same era.

Praised for her “stylish” singing (Opera magazine) and “emotional force” (The Times), Joanna Harries is a former young artist of the National Opera Studio, one of Opera Rara’s educational partners.

Joanna Harries, soprano
Anna Tilbrook, piano
Roger Parker, curator