Vivaldi: Opera Arias

Bonizzoni, Fabio, Invernizzi, Roberta, La Risonanza

GCD 922901

Italian soprano Roberta Invernizzi is known for her stylistic confidence and the dramatic liveliness of her interpretations. In shepherd scenes, in storms on the high seas, on the hunt or in prison scenes, Roberta Invernizzi shows a huge range of affects: Anger, despair, excitement, disappointed love are interpreted with touching intensity. The program presents well-known arias from Vivaldi's operatic oeuvre as well as those that deserved to be more popular

A new recording from Roberta Invernizzi always betokens pleasure, but the rare occasion when the Italian soprano is placed in the spotlight - as with this new collection of opera arias by Antonio Vivaldi - promises something very special indeed. Invernizzi is known for her style and dramatic vividness in the music of the Baroque (such as on recent discs of Handel and Campra), perfectly suitable for this new rollercoaster journey of the emotions released by Glossa, courtesy of Vivaldi's own fertile dramatic capacity to capture moods - pastoral evocations, storms at sea, hunting and even prison scenes. And a whole range of emotional high and low points - embracing anger, despair, anxiety, amorous frustration and touching intensity - are captured by Invernizzi, crowned by her electrifying performance of Dopo un'orrida procella from Griselda

The program offers a set of contrasts in known arias from Vivaldi's operatic music and those which deserve to be better-known (and which surely will). Invernizzi's interpretation is aided and abetted by La Risonanza's fine group of instrumentalists; and, of course, there is sympathetic direction from Fabio Bonizzoni, speaking volumes for his long musical association with Roberta

A wonderful opportunity to get closer to the unfolding world of Vivaldi's dramatic music with the dazzling and alluring voice of Roberta Invernizzi

Works:
• Vivaldi: Catone in Utica RV 705: Se in campo armato
• Vivaldi: Combatta un gentil cor (from Tito Manlio)
• Vivaldi: Da due venti un mar turbato (from Ercole sul Termodonte)
• Vivaldi: Dite, oimè! Ditelo, al fine (from La Fida Ninfa)
• Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe
• Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte
• Vivaldi: Gelosia, tu già rendi l’alma mia from Ottone in villa
• Vivaldi: Griselda - dramma per musica : Dopo un' orrida procella
• Vivaldi: Griselda, RV718
• Vivaldi: Il Giustino
• Vivaldi: La Fida Ninfa
• Vivaldi: Leggi almeno, tiranna infedele (from Ottone in villa)
• Vivaldi: Nacque al bosco e nacque al prato (from Il Giustino)
• Vivaldi: Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori from Griselda
• Vivaldi: Orlando finto pazzo, RV727
• Vivaldi: Ottone in Villa
• Vivaldi: Rete lacci (from Dorilla in Tempe)
• Vivaldi: Se garrisce la rondinella (from Orlando finto pazzo)
• Vivaldi: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto from Catone in Utica
• Vivaldi: Tito Manlio RV 738

CD x 1

Glossa

26/04/2012

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