{"id":1901,"date":"2018-07-19T20:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T20:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2022-10-12T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T14:11:28","slug":"opera-rara-and-lange-de-nisida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/opera-rara-and-lange-de-nisida\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Rara and L&#8217;Ange de Nisida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having become involved with Opera Rara this year as the company seeks to find a long-term home for its archive of 19th Century first editions, manuscripts, programmes, letters and other related documents, I was delighted to be able to see the production of Donizetti&#8217;s <em>L&#8217;Ange de Nisida <\/em>at the Royal Opera House on 18 July. The whole history of why this significant work was never perfromed until now is a fascinating one and surely Candida Mantica and Opera Rara must be congrtaulated on brining the original back to life &#8211; no mean feat as this involved extensive and forensic work on the shredded manuscript sources and disentanglement from the subsequent creation of <em>La Favorita. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This production under the brilliant direction of Mark Elder proved the\u00a0 worth of the whole project with outstanding performances from Joyce El-Khoury as Sylvia, Vito Priante as Fernand, David Junghoon Kim as Leone and Laurent Naouri as a fabulously funny Gaspar. Thanks to Charles Alexander (below) and Henry Little for all they did to bring this about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"https:\/\/shared-d7-royalmarsden-public.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/files_trust\/s3fs-public\/styles\/editorial_content_hero\/public\/Charles_Alexander_1000x600.jpg?itok=D938jKW2\" src=\"https:\/\/shared-d7-royalmarsden-public.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/files_trust\/s3fs-public\/styles\/editorial_content_hero\/public\/Charles_Alexander_1000x600.jpg?itok=D938jKW2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having become involved with Opera Rara this year as the company seeks to find a long-term home for its archive of 19th Century first editions, manuscripts, programmes, letters and other related documents, I was delighted to be able to see the production of Donizetti&#8217;s L&#8217;Ange de Nisida at the Royal Opera House on 18 July.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><a class=\"more-linkd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/opera-rara-and-lange-de-nisida\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}