Donizetti Songs Vol. 7 Rosa Feola & Carlo Rizzi

• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848):
• 1 Donizetti: Amiamo “Or che l’età ne invita” 02:36
• 2 Donizetti: La gondoliera “Vieni, la barca è pronta” 02:44
• 3 Donizetti: Il trovatore “Del Giordano in sulle sponde” 03:54
• 4 Donizetti: Perché, se mia tu sei 02:17
• 5 Donizetti: La sultana “Là sedeva, sull’erto verone” 06:28
• 6 Donizetti: La Bohémienne “Sono nata in Oriente” 02:57
• 7 Donizetti: Luce che brilla da bei lidi suoi 06:54
• 8 Donizetti: La zingara “Fra l’erbe cosparse” 03:58
• 9 Donizetti: La rosa dei sepolcri “Una vergine donzella” 02:36
• 10 Donizetti: D’un genio che m’accende 01:23
• 11 Donizetti: Una tortora innocente 02:21
• 12 Donizetti: La fidanzata “No: tu non m’hai tradita!” 06:25
• 13 Donizetti: Già presso al termine de’ suoi martiri 05:02
• 14 Donizetti: La lontananza “Or ch’io sono a te rapita” 02:41
• 15 Donizetti: Ah! che il destino 02:12
• 16 Donizetti: Il barcaiuolo “Voga, voga il vento” 03:09
• 17 Donizetti: “Sull’onda tremola, ride la luna” 03:30
• 18 Donizetti: Licandro pastorello 02:33
• 19 Donizetti: Amor tiranno “Perché due cori insieme” 01:56
• 20 Donizetti: La vendetta “Su questi allori un giorno” 02:14
• 21 Donizetti: Tu mi chiedi s’io t’adoro 03:23
• 22 Donizetti: Io son farfalla e volo 04:42
• 23 Donizetti: A mezzanotte “Quando la notte sarà oscura” 03:37
• 24 Donizetti: Io son pazza, capricciosa 01:41
• 25 Donizetti: Pretende un impossibile 05:36
• Total Runtime 01:26:49

Info for Donizetti Songs Vol. 7

The prolific and versatile Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, one of the central figures of Italian bel canto opera, also wrote around 200 solo songs. Most of them are rarely performed and some, until recently, were completely unknown. Curated by musicologist Roger Parker and under the leadership of Opera Rara’s artistic director Carlo Rizzi, Opera Rara presents the complete solo songs in a series of eight recital albums, making a powerful case for Donizetti as a key figure in the 19th-century song repertoire and restoring the Italian school to prominence in a field long dominated by German and French composers.

This new volume features the acclaimed soprano Rosa Feola, whose radiant tone and expressive artistry have made her a favourite on the world’s leading opera stages. A multiple prize-winner at Operalia, The World Opera Competition early in her career, Feola brings her “impeccable control of breathing and phrasing” (The Times) to Donizetti’s rarely heard songs for soprano, revealing their emotional depth and effortless grace.

Rosa Feola, soprano
Carlo Rizzi, piano

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 96kHz. The provided 192kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

Rosa Feola
came to international attention after winning multiple awards including Second Prize, The Audience Prize and the Zarzuela Prize at the Plácido Domingo World Opera Competition (2010). In 2020, Rosa was awarded the Premio Speciale of the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi.

Operatic roles include Corinna (Il Viaggio a Reims), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Gilda (Rigoletto), Norina (Don Pasquale), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Amina (La Sonnambula) to name just a few, performing at houses including Teatro alla Scala, The Metropolitan Opera New York, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Opernhaus Zürich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Ravenna Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro Regio Torino, Salzburg Festival and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Rosa has recently sung the role of Gilda (Rigoletto) at Opera Bastille, Alice Ford (Falstaff) at Teatro alla Scala, La Traviata at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Tiroler Festspiele as well as Micaela (Carmen) at Bayerische Staatsoper. She has also returned to the Metropolitan Opera, performing the role of Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) and the role of Contessa at the Washington Opera. On the concert platform, Rosa has recorded a collection of rarely performed Donizetti pieces at Wigmore Hall, London for Opera Rara. Her solo CD recording of Piccini has just been released: Son regina e sono amante, a collection of songs and arias composed by the Neapolitan composer, Niccolo Piccinni and it has already been awarded the Premio Abbiati. Rosa is based in Italy

Carlo Rizzi
has worked extensively in the domain of symphonic music and opera, conducting not only the great repertoire classics but also rare works by Bellini, Cimarosa, and Donizetti. Since his debut in 1982 with Donizetti’s L’ajo nell’imbarazzo, he has conducted over a hundred operatic works, focusing not only on Italian opera but also on works by Strauss, Wagner, Britten, and Janáček.

He was Music Director of the Welsh National Opera from 1992 to 2001 and again from 2004 to 2008. Since 2015, he has held the title of conductor emeritus. Since September 2019, he has been the Music Director of Opera Rara, the British label dedicated to reviving forgotten or little-known operatic works, with which he has recorded Leoncavallo’s Zingari and Donizetti’s L’Esule di Roma.

He is frequently invited to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and more. He has conducted renowned orchestras such as the Hallé Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Recently, he has conducted Les Vêpres siciliennes, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Madama Butterfly at the Welsh National Opera; Tosca, La Bohème, Médée, Don Carlos, and Un ballo in maschera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; I due Foscari at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Il Proscritto at London’s Barbican Centre; La Gazetta at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro; La Fille du Far-West and Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Vienna Staatsoper; Il Tabarro at the Welsh National Opera; and Otello at the Royal Opera House in London.

During the 2024-2025 season, he will conduct, among others, La fiamma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rigoletto and Turandot at the Vienna Staatsoper, La Bohème at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House in London.

At the Paris Opera: Norma, 1996; Simon Boccanegra, 1997; Rigoletto, 1998; La Cenerentola, 2002; Don Carlo, 2010; La Fille du Far-West, 2014; Cavalleria rusticana / Sancta Susanna, 2016; Cendrillon, 2022; Il Trovatore, 2023; Roméo et Juliette, 2023.

Booklet for Donizetti Songs Vol. 7