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Handel - Cleopatra. Arias from Giulio Cesare (Natalie Dessay)

Date: 9 Feb 2011 05:51:51

Natalie Dessay is one of great delights of the opera world today and her recordings have all been excellent. This however ,in my opinion , is her best disc to date. Her voice is so suited to the music. My only hope is that if a production of Giulio Cesare comes to Royal Opera House they cast Natalie Dessay . The conductor (Emmanuelle Haïm) and Orchestra (Le Concert d'Astrée) bring the music alive. This disc is 65 minutes of sheer joy.

At the Paris Opéra in early 2011, Natalie Dessay takes on a new starring role: Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, now the most popular of all the composer’s stage works. The many facets of the Egyptian queen – captured by Shakespeare in the phrase “infinite variety” – are depicted in a sequence of contrasting arias, both lyrical and brilliant, making the character a superb showcase for the French soprano’s talents as a singing actress.

Conducting the impressive cast and the period-instrument orchestra Le Concert d'Astrée at the Opéra – and on this new recording of excerpts from Giulio Cesare – is Emmanuelle Haïm, who first collaborated with Dessay in the late 1990s; both artists were involved in a Paris production of Handel’s Alcina, Haïm as répétiteur (for William Christie) and Dessay in the sparkling role of Morgana. Since then, the two have developed a close working relationship which has produced a number of Virgin Classics recordings, including several works by Handel: cantatas (in a collection called Delirio), the Dixit Dominus and the oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Desinganno, a recording which left the French magazine Diapason “looking forward to Emmanuelle Haïm’s next exciting Handelian adventure."

TRACKS

01 - Ouverture
02 - Atto I - Scene 7: Tutto può donna vezzosa
03 - Atto II - Scene 2: Dov'è, Niren, dov'è l'anima mia?
04 - Atto II - Scene 2: V'adoro, pupille
05 - Atto II - Scene 7: Esser qui deve in breve
06 - Atto II - Scene 7: Venere bella
07 - Atto II - Scene 8: Che sento? Oh Dio!
08 - Atto II - Scene 8: Se pietà di me non senti
09 - Atto II - Scene 8: Per dar vita all'idol mio
10 - Sinfonia
11 - Atto III - Scene 3: E pur così in un giorno
12 - Atto III - Scene 3: Piangerò la sorte mia
13 - Atto III - Scene 3: Troppo crudeli siete
14 - Atto III - Scene 7: Voi che mie fide ancelle
15 - Atto III - Scene 7: Forzai l'ingresso a tua salvezza, o cara!
16 - Atto III - Scene 7: Da tempeste il legno infranto
17 - Sinfonia
18 - Atto III - Scene ultima: Bellissima Cleopatra
19 - Atto III - Scene ultima: Caro! Bella!

FILESERVE

FILESONIC

Natalie Dessay (soprano)
with Sonia Prina (alto)
Le Concert d’Astrée
directed by Emmanuelle Haïm

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