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

Italian opera composer’s lost works to be performed in London after discovery by British musicologist

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.