Filippo Mineccia, Vivica Genaux, Roberta Mameli, Il Groviglio, Marco Angioloni
Release Date: 31 January 2025
Label: Glossa
Packaging Type: Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 8424562248021
Composer/Series: Rinaldo (1731)
Description
Having barely arrived in London, Handel laid the foundations for his unprecedented operatic career in 1711 with the magic opera Rinaldo. In addition to the novel Italian music, the fantastic plot, which exploited all the possibilities of baroque theatre, also met with enthusiasm from the audience: love, anger and passion amid sensational scene changes, fire-breathing monsters, flying dragons and an exotic magical island. The libretto, based on an episode from Torquato Tasso's epic Gerusalemme liberata, which was popular at the time, tells the story of the young crusader Rinaldo, who would much rather marry his beloved Almirena than fight and who must resist the magical arts of the sorceress Armida - who is in love with him - in order to find happiness. Twenty years later, in 1731, Handel fundamentally revised his successful opera once again. This rarely performed version can be heard here on CD for the first time and features an outstanding cast of singers, above all the leading Italian countertenor Filippo Mineccia in the main role and Roberta Mameli and Vivica Genaux as the ladies fighting for him. Marco Angioloni, who also sings Goffredo, conducts the young ensemble Il Groviglio with verve.
Tracklisting
La Colombina; Schola Antiqua
Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian, Benedicte Maurseth, Patrick Graham
Filippo Mineccia, Vivica Genaux, Roberta Mameli, Il Groviglio, Marco Angioloni
Soloists, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
Eric Hoeprich, Teunis van der Zwart, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
Jonatan Alvarado; Ariel Abramovich
Graindelavoix; Bjorn Schmelzer
Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria, Coro Lirico Siciliano, Filippo Arlia, Francesco Costa
Erich Leinsdorf; Wiener Philharmoniker; Cesare Siepi; Fernando Corena; Leontyne Price; Birgit Nilss
Iurii Iushkevich, Johanna Zimmer, Noa Frenkel Reuben Willcox, Rinnat Moriah, Ensemble Modern, Johan
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
Filippo Mineccia, Vivica Genaux, Roberta Mameli, Il Groviglio, Marco Angioloni
Francesco Ledda, Opera Discovery Orchestra, Stefanna Kybalova, Valer Borin, Marcello Lippi, Paolo B
Horst Wolf
Sophie Gordeladze, Hector Sandoval, Luca Grassi, Martin Piskorski, Rory Dunne, Cappella Aquileia, T
