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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dalya Alberge

‘Incredible’ Donizetti songs to be heard for first time in 200 years

A performance of Donizetti’s La Fille Du Régiment at the Royal Opera House.
A performance of Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment at the Royal Opera House. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Up to 90 previously unknown songs by one of classical music’s greatest composers, Gaetano Donizetti, will be heard for the first time in more than 200 years after their discovery by a leading British musicologist.

Roger Parker, a professor of music at King’s College London, described the scores as “incredible” and worthy of Donizetti’s most popular operas, masterpieces that include Lucia di Lammermoor.

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