Angelica diabolica / Guilia Semenzato ; Kammerorchester Basel.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Semenzato, Giulia, singer.

Kammerorchester Basel, instrumentalist.

Language:

English

French

German

Italian

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Songs (High voice) with orchestra.

Operas--Excerpts.

Operas.

Genre:

Songs.

Excerpts.

Art music.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (51:38) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : Alpha Classics, [2022]

Language Note:

Sung in Italian.

System Details:

digital

optical

audio file

CD audio

Summary:

Giulia Semenzato, already renowned for her interpretations of the Baroque repertory and her Mozartian roles, presents here her first solo album. The programme, entitled Angelica diabolica, is devoted to the female protagonists of Ludovico Ariosto, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso, whose emblematic figure is Angelica, a revolutionary heroine, ready to resort to any trick in order to regain her freedom. After the Baroque Romeof Luigi Rossi and his opera Il palazzo incantato (1642), we turn to the galant style of Naples with Nicola Porpora's serenata Angelica(1720), then to Milan in 1702 with the warlike heroine of Bernardo Sabadini's opera Angelica nel Catai, before a more melancholy take on the character by Agostino Steffani (1691). These rare numbers rub shoulders with more familiar arias by Georg Friedrich Handel, sung by the heroines of his operas Orlando, Ariodante, Amadigi di Gaula, not to mention the famous enchantress Alcina. Alongside the Kammerorchester Basel, Giulia Semenzato deploys all her virtuosity, vocal agility and feeling for words to slip into the shoes of these women, by turns angelic and diabolical.

Contents:

Il palazzo incantato, ovvero La guerriera amante. Si tocchi tamburo (3:23) ; Sol per breve momento (3:41) / Rossi

Angelica. Mentre rendo a te la vita (5:22) ; Costante e fedele (3:26) / Porpora

Angelica nel Catai. Mi vedrà più fiera in campo / Sabadini (3:10)

Orlando generoso. Se t'eclissi / Steffani (7:05)

Orlando. Non potra dirmi ingrata / Handel (4:00)

Ariodante. Quella man che mi condanna / Pollarolo (5:03)

Ariodante. Volate, amori (4:08) ; Alcina. Mi restano le lagrime (6:22) ; Amadigi di Gaula. Destero dall' empia dite (5:52) / Handel.

Participant:

Guilia Semenzato, soprano ; Kammerorchester Basel.

Notes:

Recorded Don Bosco, Basel, Switzerland 2021 January.

Title from disc label.

Program notes by Giovanni Andrea Sechi and biographical notes in English, French and German, and texts with English and French translations (29 pages : color portrait) inserted in container.

Contains:

Container of: Rossi, Luigi, approximately 1598-1653. Palazzo incantato. Si tocchi tamburo.

Container of: Rossi, Luigi, approximately 1598-1653. Palazzo incantato. Sol per breve momento.

Container of: Porpora, Nicola, 1686-1768. Angelica. Mentre rendo a te la vita

Container of: Porpora, Nicola, 1686-1768. Angelica. Costante e fedele.

Container of: Sabadini, Bernardo. Angelica nel Catai. Mi vedrà più fiera in campo.

Container of: Steffani, Agostino, 1654-1728. Orlando generoso. Se t'eclissi.

Container of: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Orlando. Non potrà dirmi ingrata

Container of: Pollarolo, Carlo Francesco, approximately 1653-1723. Ariodante. Quella man che mi condanna.

Container of: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Ariodante. Volate, amori, di due bei cori

Container of: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Alcina. Mi restano le lagrime

Container of: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Amadigi. Desterò dall'empia dite

OCLC:

1348268382

Publisher Number:

3760014198304

ALPHA 830 Alpha Classics