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DiDonato tackles this catalogue of emotional meltdowns with customary gusto. Sampled track-by-track, it's a thrilling operatic show case… — BBC Music Magazine, November 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Oct 2008
Catalogue No: 5190382
Label: Erato
Length: 75 minutes

Opera

February 2009

Recording of the Month

Excerpt, Handel: Serse

Work length3:42

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Crude furie degl'orridi abissi (Serse)

Track length3:42

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Excerpt, Handel: Teseo

Work length12:46

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Dolce Riposo

Track length3:14

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Ira, sdegni, e furore + O stringero nel sen

Track length4:46

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Moriro, ma vendicata

Track length4:46

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Excerpt, Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Work length5:22

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

L'angue offeso mai riposa

Track length5:22

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Excerpt, Handel: Admeto

Work length7:32

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Orride larve

Track length7:32

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Excerpt, Handel: Hercules

Work length4:39

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

There in myrtle shades

Track length4:39

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Excerpt, Handel: Semele

Work length3:39

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Hence, Iris Hence away

Track length3:39

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Excerpt, Handel: Imeneo

Work length5:20

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Sorge nell'alma mia

Track length5:20

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Excerpt, Handel: Ariodante

Work length10:54

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Scherza Infinda (Ariodante)

Track length10:54

Album only

Excerpt, Handel: Admeto

Work length4:59

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Gelosia, spietala Aletto

Track length4:59

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Excerpt, Handel: Amadigi di Gaula

Work length5:23

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Destero dall' empia Dite

Track length5:23

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Excerpt, Handel: Hercules

Work length10:44

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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Recorded: 2008-04-22
Recording Venue: 18, 19 & 22 April, 2008. Bruxelles, Theatre de la Monnaie

Cease Ruler of the day to Rise

Track length4:44

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Where shall I fly?

Track length6:00

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This gripping recital of Handel ‘mad scenes’ is the first release from American mezzo Joyce DiDonato as an exclusive artist for Virgin and EMI Classics.

Over the past five years DiDonato has enjoyed an uninterrupted series of triumphs as an opera singer and recitalist in Europe and the USA. As the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s magazine Opera News wrote: ‘The buoyant progress of DiDonato’s career... has been one of the happiest opera events of the past decade’.

At the heart of her stage repertoire are Handel, Mozart and Rossini, though it also embraces Donizetti, Bellini, Massenet, Strauss and modern works, such as Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking. Her signature role is probably Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, which has taken her to New York’s Metropolitan, the Chicago Lyric, the Paris Opéra, London’s Royal Opera, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Houston, San Francisco, Bologna and Rossini’s birthplace, Pesaro. For her Met performances of Rosina in 2007, broadcast across the USA on HDTV, she received the prestigious Beverly Sills Award.

This recital of Handel arias with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques was recorded at concert performances in April 2008 at Brussels’ Théâtre de la Monnaie. Reporting on the concert, Forum Opéra said: “The mezzo takes this repertoire seriously and she has the means to deliver on her promises … as she demonstrated in dazzling, often intoxicating fashion. The flexibility of her instrument is amazing; and as if her true, vital coloratura and her exemplary legato were not enough in themselves, she brings all her resources to bear on sculpting the music, throwing out brilliant top notes, venturing powerful crescendos and raising the stakes in virtuosity. She both surprises and delights …”

A highlight of the programme is Dejanira’s climactic scene from Hercules. DiDonato’s stage performance as Hercules’ wife at London’s Barbican, with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants (in a production also seen in France and the US), earned her a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award. The Guardian commented that: ‘Joyce DiDonato gives the performance of a lifetime, hurling out coloratura with the fury of a psychopath before descending into insanity’. In late 2007 she assumed two Handel title roles: Alcina and, at the Geneva Opera, Ariodante, prompting Le Figaro to praise the “moving perfection of her line and her singing, which conveys the emotions of the betrayed lover and does justice to all the colours in the music.”

“When given the treasured opportunity to record my first solo aria disc, I knew immediately that I wanted it to be dedicated to the works of Handel, for his music and his characters offer me the chance to take a profoundly emotional journey: nothing can remain on the surface – he constantly invites you to delve deeper. I thought it worthwhile to explore some of these rich, complicated, often lost characters to whom he devoted so much creative energy, to examine their psyches – searching for the reasons for their fury or despair – and to find their humanity. Fortunately, this is what Handel excelled at: eliciting the vulnerable, human side of these characters as they are often pushed into tragic circumstances. I'm constantly astonished to discover time and again how much beauty he finds in their (our?) suffering, how he gives melodic flight to such tragedy and such fire to their fury.” Joyce DiDonato

Reviews

November 2008

DiDonato tackles this catalogue of emotional meltdowns with customary gusto. Sampled track-by-track, it's a thrilling operatic show case…

28th November 2008

Technically, she can't be bettered. Her legato is exceptionally smooth, particularly notably in Ariodante's ''Scherza infida'', her coloratura is dazzling, her high notes perfect even in the heat of passion, and her dynamic range is a joy...All in all, a marvellous solo album debut.

2010

One of the most enjoyable 'gems from' Handel discs in recent years was 'Amor e gelosia', a recital of duets sung by Patrizia Ciofi and Joyce DiDonato (see above). DiDonato now presents a selection of arias, entitled 'Furore', that is just as fine; indeed, it's superior in that the accompaniment is provided by a chamber orchestra rather than the spare tones of the one-to-a-part Il Complesso Barocco.
The pieces are by no means all 'furious'. But most are passionate, and passion is something that DiDonato does well. A good example is the accompanied recitative 'Orride larve' from Admeto, where the king rages at his fate. The following aria is quite different, a calm acceptance of death that DiDonato sings with affecting simplicity.
Would that the same could be said of her cadenzas and embellishments. As with many other singers, the decorations hover on the borders of good taste; and starting the da capo of 'Sorge all'alma' a third higher was not a good idea.
The selection is refreshingly unhackneyed, 'Scherza infida' from Ariodante and 'Where shall I fly?' from Hercules being among the few predictable arias; and although there is an excerpt from Serse, it isn't 'Ombra mai fu'. Full marks for including some secco recitatives.

January 2009

The pieces are by no means all "furious". But most are passionate, and passion is something that DiDonato does well… A good example is the accompanied recitative "Orride larve" from Admeto, where the king rages at his fate. The following aria is quite different, a calm acceptance of death that DiDonato sings with affecting simplicity.

2011 edition

DiDonato holds the listener in her grip through every response, and her bravura in anger is matched by her moments of tenderness. Christophe Rousset provides fine supportive accompaniments with Les Talens Lyriques, and if you enjoy vocal fireworks this can be strongly recommended.

August 2014

DiDonato has devoted much of her career to Handel, and here her trademark coloratura and innate theatricality pay dividends in arias from works including Serse, Teseo, and Admeto, culminating in Dejanira's blistering mad-scene from Hercules. Christophe Rousset secures dynamic playing from Les Talens Lyriques.

5th October 2008

DiDonato uses her first solo aria disc, recorded live, to bring her rare dramatic intensity and purity of tone to 14 mad scenes from Handel...But there are calmer beauties here, too, in a collection that stands way out from the recent spate of Handel recitals.

7th November 2008

...an exhilarating roller-coaster of a recital from a charismatic singing-actress.

Joyce DiDonato - Furore (Handel Opera Arias)

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