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Gaetano Donizetti was one of Italy鈥檚 most prolific tunesmiths, with almost 70 operas to his name 鈥� about as many as Rossini, Bellini and Verdi all combined - whose arias still cut straight to the heart today. All this week, Donald Macleod follows his irresistible rise: from a child brought up in a dark, cramped cellar to become a pioneering master of the style known as bel canto. And like any opera plot, there鈥檚 triumph and tragedy, headaches and heartbreak鈥�

Today, Donizetti is plucked from the cramped underground cellar of his birthplace to become a choirboy. He finds a musical father figure to make up for his own father鈥檚 cantankerous attitude, and despite a plague of bad luck in his early stage productions, he鈥檚 hailed as a 鈥渘ew hope for Italian opera鈥�.

L鈥橢lisir d鈥檃more: Cantiam, facciam brindisi
English Chamber Orchestra
Richard Bonynge, conductor
Sinfonia for Winds in G minor
Camerata Budapest
L谩szl贸 Kov谩cs, conductor

Gloria (from Messa di Gloria)
Siri Karoline Thornhill, soprano
Marie-Sande Papenmeyer, mezzo
Mark Adler, tenor
Martin Berner, baritone
Simon Mayr Chorus
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Concerto de Bassus
Franz Hauk, conductor

String Quartet No 5 in E minor (1st and 2nd movements)
Quartet Pleyel K枚ln
Enrico di Borgogna, Act I: 鈥淐are augette che spiegate鈥�
Della Jones, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry, conductor

Waltz in G major
Larissa Kondratjewa, piano
Reinhard Schmiedel, piano

Zoraida, Act I: Finale 鈥淚l silenzio鈥�..qual tradimento鈥�
Bruce Ford, tenor (Almuzir)
Majella Cullagh, soprano (Zoraida)
Paul Austin Kelly, tenor (Abenamet)
Matthew Hargreaves, bass (Ali)
Dominic Natoli, tenor (Almanzor)
Cristina Pastorello, soprano (Ines)
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
David Parry, conductor

Produced by Amelia Parker for 蘑菇短视频 Audio Wales and West.