Performance

Opera Rara presents: Celebrating Tosti

Thu 26 Nov | 1pm-10pm
Chapel of St Peter & St Paul, Old Royal Naval College, London SE10 9NN

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Opera Rara continues its 2026/27 Salon Series with a day celebrating the life and music of composer Paolo Tosti (1846-1916).

Alumni artists from the Tosti International Singing Academy, in a new partnership with the Academy, will present songs by Tosti alongside songs by his contemporaries. Born in Italy but with an influential career in London, Tosti was once the singing-master to the British royal family, and his compositions were staples in the salons of Europe and elsewhere.

The pre-concert talk with music historian Flora Willson and a panel of Tosti scholars begins at 6:15pm.

The entire day also includes a lunch and masterclass with various packages available to book.

Day schedule

1:00pm | Lunch
3:00pm | Masterclass
6:15pm | Lives in Song: Tosti pre-concert talk
7:30pm | Celebrating Tosti Salon Concert

CONCERT PROGRAMME

  • Aprile
  • Ideale
  • Marechiare
  • Scetate (Mario Costa)
  • Se (Luigi Denza)
  • Venetian Song (Italian or English, duet)
  • Chitarrata Abruzzese
  • Tutto per me sei tu (Bagni di Lucca)
  • Melanconia (Giacomo Puccini)
  • La serenata del Arlechin (Jules Burgmein/Giulio Ricordi)
  • Se dirti una parola • L’alba separa

— INTERVAL —

  • Allons voir (duet)
  • Avec Toi
  • Le parfum impérissable (Gabriel Fauré)
  • Chanson de Fortunio
  • Les Yeux Bleus (Isidore De Lara)
  • En Septembre (Liza Lehmann)
  • Passing Shadows
  • Beauty’s Eyes
  • The Brook (Charlotte Alington Barbard/Claribel)
  • The Lost Chord (Arthur Sullivan)
  • Ask Me No More
  • Rose Way (Ruggero Leoncavallo, duet)
  • Goodbye!