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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!