Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Patric Schmid

From The Guardian today:
Impresario dedicated to the revival of bel canto operas:

“In April 1801, Giovanni Simone Mayr’s opera Ginevra di Scozia was premiered at the newly opened Teatro Nuovo in Trieste. Exactly 200 years later, Opera Rara performed it there again. That special anniversary was one of the typically imaginative projects organised by Patric Schmid, who has died of a heart attack, aged 61. Schmid was the co-founder of Opera Rara in 1970, and for 35 years oversaw the rediscovery of dozens of neglected or forgotten works by the masters of bel canto.…”