abstract:Opera Rara is a British record label, founded in the early 1970s by American Patric SchmidElizabeth Forbes, "Obituary: Patric Schmid: Co-Founder of Opera Rara", The Independent (London), 14 November 2005 and Englishman Don WhiteElizabeth Forbes, "Obituary: Don White", The Independent (London), 6 May 1995 to promote concerts of rare and/or forgotten operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer and Donizetti and such other bel canto composers as Giovanni Pacini, Saverio Mercadante, and Federico Ricci.Patric Schmid, "Opera Rara and its Donizetti Recordings", in Bellotto (ed.