Credits:

Giuliano Carella, Alun Francis, David Parry

Description:

Rare and valuable Donizetti recordings return in a limited-edition boxed setOpera Rara was founded to rediscover, restore, document and perform the lost operatic heritage of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2020. Donizetti has been a particular focus, with the company reviving a great many operas that had gone unperformed. The three opera recordings in this set had been out of print for more than a decade; to round off the anniversary year they are now remastered and reissued together in a limited edition. All three date from the 1830s, when Donizetti was at the height of his popularity in Italy, and they reveal both his acute sense of theatre and his international ambitions.Il diluvio universale takes the biblical story of Noah’s ark and adds to it the tragic tale of Cadmo, satrap of the Babylonian city of S