Composers: Donizetti
Compositions: L’Ange de Nisida
Performers: Joyce El-Khoury s, David Junghoon Kim t, Laurent Naouri b, Vito Priante bar, Royal Opera House Orchestra
& Chorus/Sir Mark Elder
Catalogue Number: Opera Rara ORC58 (2CD)

Donizetti’s prolific output never ceases to boggle the mind, having written almost 70 operas in his 50 years. Opera Rara’s latest venture reminds us of this fact all over again, having excavated the composer’s unperformed semiseria L’Ange de Nisida (The Angel of Nisida), reconstructed from fragmentary manuscripts by musicologist Candida Mantica. Commissioned by Paris’ Théâtre de la Renaissance after the success of the composer’s French version...