Artist: Giulia Semenzato, Kammerorchester Basel
Album: Angelica diabolica
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 51:36
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 1,00 GB

Tracklist:

01. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Rossi: Il Palazzo incantato: Si tocchi tamburo (03:23)
02. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Rossi: Il Palazzo incantato: Sol per breve momento (03:41)
03. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Porpora: L’Angelica: Mentre rendo a te la vita (05:22)
04. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Porpora: L’Angelica: Costante e fedele (03:26)
05. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Sabadini: Angelica nel Catai: Mi vedrà più fiera in campo (03:10)
06. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Steffani: Orlando generoso: Se t’eclissi o bella face (07:05)
07. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Handel: Orlando, HWV 31: Non potrà dirmi ingrata, nò, perchè restai piagata (04:00)
08. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Pollarolo: Ariodante: Quella man che mi condanna (05:03)
09. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33: Volate, amori (04:08)
10. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Handel: Alcina, HWV 34: Mi restano le lagrime (06:22)
11. Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11: Desterò dall’empia Dite (05:52)

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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 Rome of 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.