Palmarius is currently working on a series of audiobooks in Russian about great operatic masterpieces. Each publication is dedicated to one opera, presenting the plot and the characters along with the musical highlights. All audiobooks will be accompanied by a short e-book taking the listener on a journey of further discovery: from the intricacies of the libretto to the recommendations for most interesting audio and video recordings of the opera.

The following operas are currently in the pipeline:

Bellini: Norma, La sonnambula

Bizet: Carmen, Les Pecheurs de perles

Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande

Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor

Gounod: Faust, Roméo et Juliette

Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana

Massenet: Manon, Werther

Mozart: Idomeneo, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte

Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Ponchielli: La Gioconda

Puccini: Manon Lescaut, La bohème, Tosca, La fanciulla del West, La Rondine

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, L’italiana in Algeri, Il turco in Italia, Semiramide

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila

Verdi: Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Otello, Falstaff

The publisher is looking for writers, editors and translators from English, French and Italian to Russian to collaborate on the preparation of the series. Interested candidates should write to: editor@palmarius.online