The Peter Moores Foundation has become synonymous with Opera in English - 'Opera that speaks your language'. To date more than 50 operas from the core repertory have been recorded with Chandos Records including reissues of some of the famous English language recordings funded by the Foundation in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Foundation also collaborates on many recordings with Opera Rara, a specialist label founded by the late Patric Schmid who was devoted to the exploration, restoration and recording of the lost operatic heritage of the 19th century. Opera Rara's recordings have brought forgotten musical treasures to life, making them widely available to the public for the first time.
Jennifer Larmore

'Even without Patric (Schmid, who died in 2005), who had a love of all things rare and wonderful, Opera Rara remains committed heart and soul to full opera recordings. It has a great fan base and for the regular team of singers it can feel like the old contract system at 20th Century Fox. We are all very loyal to each other.'
Alan Opie

'It has been an enormous pleasure to participate in Chandos Opera in English series. I am happy to use the experience of years at English National Opera communicating in English directly with our audiences. There is a call for opera in the vernacular. There's nothing like it if you want to get through to people.'
13 October 2008 
Nick Kimberley reviews regularly for the Evening Standard, BBC Music Magazine and The Gramophone

'Nobody in opera is keen to waste money. Both the late, Patric Schmid showed, and Peter Moores shows, that a judicious mixture of pragmatism and idealism can make a difference to the way we see and hear opera. In their distinctive ways, Opera Rara and Opera in English have enriched the operatic landscape, and that must be good for opera’s ecology on the broadest scale.'