Jul 292012
 

It is suit­ably apt that moles, defect­ors and double agents have been lurk­ing wait­ing to destabil­ise Decca’s secret project.

So the new album, , will be released on Octo­ber 2. The track list is as follows:

1. “Schiere invitte, non tard­ate” (da Alarico il Baltha)
2. “Ogni core può sperar” (da Ser­vio Tul­lio)
3. “Ove son? Chi m’aita? In mezzo all’ombré… Dal mio petto” (da Niobe)
4. “Più non v’ascondo” (da Tassi­lone)
5. “Amami, e vede­rai” (da Niobe)
6. “T’abbraccio, mia Diva/Ti stringo, mio Nume” (duetto da Niobe)
7. “Mie fide schiere, all’armi!… Suoni, tuoni, il suolo scuota“
8. “Sposa, man­car mi sento… Deh non far colle tue lag­rime” (da Tassi­lone)
9. “Non prendo con­siglio“
10. “Si, si, riposa, o caro… Pal­pit­anti sfere belle” (da Alarico il Baltha)
11. “Notte amica al cieco Dio” (da La libertà con­tenta)
12. “Com­batton quest’alma” (duetto da I tri­onfi del fato)
13. “A facile vit­toria” (da Tassi­lone)
14. “Tra le guerre e le vit­torie” (da Leonato)
15. “Fos­chi crepuscoli“
16. “Dell’alma stanca a rad­dol­cir le tempre… Sfere amiche, or date al lab­bro” (da Niobe)
17. “La cerasta più ter­ribile” (da La lotta d’Hercole con Acheloo)
18. “Ser­ena, o mio bel sole… Mia fiamma/Mio ardore” (duetto da Niobe)
19. “Dal tuo lab­bro amor m’invita” (da Tassi­lone)
20. “Deh stan­cati, o sorte” (da La libertà con­tenta)
21. “Svenati, strug­giti, com­batti, suda” (da La libertà con­tenta)
22. “Padre, s’è colpa in lui“
23. “Timori, ruine“
24. “Morirò fra strazi e scempi” (da Hen­rico Leone)
25. “Non si parli che di fede”

They are all, as anti­cip­ated, arias by Agostino Stef­fani. For the duets Bar­toli will be teamed with Phil­ippe Jaroussky.

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Jul 292012
 

While Decca keep us guess­ing at the con­tent of , ’s new album, their press release gives out a lot of inform­a­tion already:

Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mis­sion, a sen­sa­tional new album from the world’s best-selling clas­sical artist, Cecilia Bar­toli, and a pro­ject with inter­na­tional polit­ics, reli­gious con­flict, dip­lo­matic secrecy, spy­ing and sen­sa­tional music at its heart.

The album show­cases the music of a little-known Italian com­poser and will include solo arias of vari­ous moods and styles, sev­eral duets, solo num­bers with chorus — all sung in Italian — and instru­mental inter­ludes that cre­ate an organic trans­ition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the begin­ning to the end of the album.… [con­tinue reading]

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Jun 072012
 

He might not have the voice of or but Mar­ilyn Man­son goth Andrew De Leon cer­tainly gives a mov­ing per­form­ance of ’s “O mio bab­bino caro” and his story is almost unbelieveable.

[con­tinue reading]

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Jun 032012
 

bartoli rocket Cecilia Bartolis Giulio Cesare in Egitto: boos for the production, cheers for the cast’s well thought out pro­gram­ming for her first year as dir­ector of Salzburg’s Whit­sun Fest­ival was them­atic, inspired by the lady of the asp, Cleo­patra. The cli­max of the fest­ival was a new pro­duc­tion of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, with la Bar­toli as the iconic Egyp­tian queen. The cast­ing was superb and aur­ally everything was splen­did, but the pro­duc­tion was the biggest load of bosh I’ve seen in ages.

Dir­ect­ors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caur­ier, faith­ful Bar­toli col­lab­or­at­ors from Zurich, have put together a pro­duc­tion which is (pre­sum­ably inten­tion­ally) anti-aesthetic. Fine. Let’s have scenery that looks as though stage­hands have left bits lying around after a stor­e­room clearout; props, fur­niture and cos­tumes that seem to have been chosen at ran­dom from a thrift shop; light­ing which casts shad­ows haphaz­ardly across the stage and cast.… [con­tinue reading]

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Nov 262010
 

ercole Vivaldis Ercole sul Termodonte with Rolando Villazón and Joyce DiDonato: release date 29th NovemberAvail­able on CD and for mp3 down­load. With a cast that also includes Diana Dam­rau, , and Pat­rizia Ciofi it should be as excit­ing as Biondi’s Bajazet.

Her­cules reborn! and lead a dazzling cast in Vivaldi’s opera Ercole sul Ter­modonte, first heard in Rome in 1723 and recon­struc­ted by con­ductor Fabio Biondi from the ori­ginal lib­retto, his­tor­ical scores and his intim­ate know­ledge of the composer.

Like the myth­ical Her­cules, hero of this opera by Viv­aldi, dynamic tenor Rolando Villazón has tri­umphed over some huge chal­lenges, includ­ing an oper­a­tion in 2009 on his vocal cords.

In this, his first com­plete stu­dio record­ing of an opera for Vir­gin Clas­sics, he takes on the title role of Her­cules (Ercole), whose is to obtain the belt of the Amazon queen Hip­polyta (Ippol­ita).… [con­tinue reading]

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