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Thank you to our supporters

Opera Rara’s projects are only made possible by the generosity of our supporters, who believe in our mission to restore, record, perform and promote the forgotten operatic heritage of the 19th and early 20th centuries. We would like to take this opportunity to thank those individuals and foundations who have made a gift to our Annual Fund. Your continued support is vital.

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Guardians

Carlo Grosso
Stefan Olsson and John Tierney
Andrea Pessino ∞

Circle Members

OPERA RARA CIRCLE

Anonymous

ARTIST’S CIRCLE

Philip Eisenbeiss †
Seifi & Ellen Ghasemi †
Jenny Hodgson
Islée Oliva Salinas and Michael Buckley
Ditlev Rindom and Enrique Sacau
Carlo Rizzi and Lucy Stout †
Sir Simon and Lady Virginia Robertson
Gerry Wakelin & and the late Ivor Samuels*

Patrons

Benefactor

Jon & Julia Aisbitt, Yvonne Horsfall Turner ◊, David & Janet McCue ∞, Sara Naudi & Prof. Mark Layton, Peter Rosenthal, Terence & Sian Sinclair

Devotee

Timothy Congdon, Sir Vernon Ellis, Harry Hyman, Alan Jackson, Leslie & Peter Macleod-Miller ◊
Joseph Mari ∞, Bruce & Sara Mauleverer, John Nickson & Simon Rew, Imogen Rumbold
Peter Thompson (in honour of Carmen Giannattasio), Mark Walker

Aficionado

Claus Ambos, Malcolm Barnett, Sir David Bean, Mackenzie Brown, Anonymous, Marco Compagnoni, Eleanor Cranmer & Nick Thomas, Jeff & Emily Fergus, Howard Gatiss, Paul Giles, Guido Gläser & Nelly Frei, Jane Gross ∞, Malcolm Herring, Nicole Hoechli, Marie-Louise Jungels, Kathryn Langridge, Adolfo Laurenti & Juliet Petrus, Michele Leuenberger & Martin Hatzinger, Louis Levene, Henry Little & Prof. Maria M. Delgado, Chris & Dominique Moore, Simon Mortimore KC, Alison Nicol, Nicole & Martin Ostwald, Gerry Power & Pawan Dhillon, Christian & Myrto Rochat, Jackie & John Rothenberg, Anonymous, Mark Shaw, Zachary Vanderburg & Felipe Ramos Barajas, Arne Wasmuth

Friends

ENTHUSIAST

Anthony Freud & Colin Ure, Lesley Garrett & Peter Christian, Marian Gilbart Read, David Hall, Glenn Hurstfield, Sir Timothy & Lady Lloyd, Janet McLeavy, Catherine Roe, Lady Judith Swire, Richard Anwyl Williams

CONNOISSEUR

Ignacio Álvarez-Rendueles & Marivi Lorente, Christopher FitzGerald, Julien Herveau, Sarah & Christopher Knight, Janetta Lee ∞, Christopher Leslie, Jonathan & Fangmin Macdonald, David Macfarlane, Peter Gerald Malone, Sarah Mason, Lady Carolyn Newbigging, David Pease, Deborah Roslund, Alan Sainer, Lucie & Christopher Sims, Joseph Valone & Michael Paul ∞

CONTRIBUTOR

Russell Burdekin, Paul Cleary, Mr David Close, Mr Hugh Doherty, Kent Dymak and Theodore Foss, Mrs Angela Jill Dymock, Lady Lorraine Elborough-Cook, Mrs Victoria and Robert Ellis, Charles and Susie Evans, Susie and Charles Evans, Kate Fried, Clara Hayes, Susan Horsewood-Lee, Mrs Fiona Ligonnet, Mrs Janet McLeod-Hatch, David Mitchell, Gillian Newson, Frederic Pirotte, Jon Shapiro, Robert Sniegowski, Frances Tait, Elizabeth Toulson

And our many Member Friends

Lifetime Guardians

Opera Rara is particularly grateful to those individuals and organisations who have been exceedingly generous and have been guardians of our work since 1970.

Charles Alexander CBE
Foyle Foundation
Carlo Grosso
Michael Hartnall
Glenn Hurstfield
The Monument Trust
Sir Peter Moores and the Peter Moores Foundation
Stefan Olsson & John Tierney
Sir Simon and Lady Virginia Robertson

Opera Rara is particularly grateful to the late Sir Peter Moores who, through the Peter Moores Foundation, supported our work from 1978 to 2010.

The Annual Fund list is comprised of donors who gave at the Connoisseur level or higher from April 2025 to September 2026
◊ Gift in Kind
∞ American Friend
† International Circle
* Opera Rara at 60 Society

I relish the opportunities Opera Rara offers singers and love being part of its family of musicians, researchers and enthusiasts who are bringing these discoveries before the public and preserving them for the future.

Gerry Wakelin, supporter since 2009