Giulio Cesare: A Baroque Hero
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD923516
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 19th October 2018
Contents
Works
La morte di CesareArtists
Raffaele Pe (countertenor)Raffaella Lupinacci (mezzo-soprano)
La Lira di Orfeo
Conductor
Luca GiardiniWorks
La morte di CesareArtists
Raffaele Pe (countertenor)Raffaella Lupinacci (mezzo-soprano)
La Lira di Orfeo
Conductor
Luca GiardiniAbout
With refined musicality and artistry the countertenor Pe (who has appeared on a number of recent recordings on Glossa, including the A due alti disc with La Venexiana) approaches roles demonstrating contrasting personality traits of the Caesar who was capable not only of heroic acts but also of compassion, of amorous exhilaration, of physical and emotional fragility. The sweep of the eighteenth century encompassed by these compositions also embraced the onstage heyday of the castratos: including Felice Salimbeni, Senesino, Cusanino, Sciroletto and Gasparo Pacchiarotti - demanding from Raffaele Pe great agility in covering both contralto and soprano castrato tessituras.
Alongside excerpts from Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto there are arias from works which Pe has been working on to provide modern performing scores together with scholar Valentina Anzani (who provides a historic survey of Caesar in Baroque opera in the accompanying essay), such as by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Niccolò Piccinni, Geminiano Giacomelli and Francesco Bianchi.
Pe, who will be taking the role of Goffredo in Handel’s Rinaldo in the new touring Opera Lombardia production this season, is accompanied here by La Lira di Orfeo directed by Luca Giardini (a long-year member of Fabio Biondi’s Europa Galante), in this their debut recording.
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