Lawrence Brownlee and Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi launch the Donizetti Song Project at Wigmore Hall
In September, Opera Rara begins its three-year Donizetti Song Project, an ambitious initiative which will see the recording and performance of nearly 200 solo songs by the composer. The project is launched by world-renowned bel canto specialist, tenor Lawrence Brownlee, in concert with Opera Rara’s Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi at London’s Wigmore Hall on 9 September at 1:00PM. Originally planned as a duo recital with baritone Etienne Dupuis, Brownlee will now present a solo programme featuring works by Donizetti, Rossini, Bellini, Verdi and Schubert.
Italian baritone Nicola Alaimo replaces Dupuis in the recording of the baritone songs in the Donizetti Song Project, returning after his performance earlier this year as Murena in Donizetti’s L’esule di Roma. The Times called his performance “enthralling … idiomatic in Donizetti’s songful lines.” A recital with Alaimo will be announced at a later date.
The programme for Lawrence Brownlee and Carlo Rizzi’s recital on 9 September is:
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
“Lungi ne vai”
“Non v’è piu barbaro”
“Malvina”
“Non giova il sospirar”
“Sovra il remo”
“O anime” (unfinished)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Vier Canzonen, D.688
“Non t’accostar all’urna”
“Guarda che bianca luna”
“Da quel sembiante”
“Mio ben ricordati”
Gaetano Donizetti
“Ella riposa”
“Lamento”
“V’era un dì”
“Me voglio fà ‘na casa”
Donizetti’s Contemporaries
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
La lontananza
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Ricordanza
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Lo spazzacamino
Brindisi
Gaetano Donizetti
“L’ora del ritrovo”
“Tu porgesti”
Il sospiro
“Corri destrier”
Tickets for the recital can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk. For those who have already purchased tickets to the recital with Lawrence Brownlee, Etienne Dupuis and Carlo Rizzi, these are still valid. If you no longer wish to attend, please contact the box office to arrange an exchange or refund (boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk / 020 7935 2141).