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Vivaldi: Opera Arias

Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)

La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni

Vivaldi: Opera Arias

Awards:

One of Invernizzi's virtues is her ability to be fluently articulate and expressive, both in show-stoppers and arias that call for compassion, contemplation and reflection. Unlike some of her...

Vivaldi: Opera Arias

Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)

La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni

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One of Invernizzi's virtues is her ability to be fluently articulate and expressive, both in show-stoppers and arias that call for compassion, contemplation and reflection. Unlike some of her...

About

A new recording from Roberta Invernizzi always gives pleasure, but on the rare occasion when the Italian soprano is placed in the spotlight, as with this new collection of opera arias, it promises something very special indeed. Invernizzi is known for her style and drama in the music of the Baroque (as on recent discs of Handel and Campra). This new journey, on Glossa, showcases Vivaldi’s own fertile dramatic capacity to capture moods and a whole range of emotional highs and lows embracing anger, despair, anxiety, amorous frustration and touching intensity. Invernizzi triumphs, crowned by her electrifying performance of 'Dopo un’orrida procella' from 'Griselda'.

The programme offers a set of contrasts in known arias from Vivaldi’s operatic music and those which deserve to be better-known. Invernizzi’s interpretation is aided and abetted by La Risonanza’s fine group of instrumentalists and, of course, sympathetic direction from Fabio Bonizzoni, speaking volumes for their long musical association.

Contents and tracklist

Tito Manlio, RV 738, Act II: Aria: Combatta un gentil cor
Track length4:30
Ottone in Villa, RV 729, Act II: Aria: Leggi almeno, tiranna infedele
Track length5:40
Ercole su'l Termodonte, RV 710, Act II: Aria: Da due venti un mar turbato
Track length3:15
Tito Manlio, RV 738, Act II: Non ti lusing la crudeltade
Track length8:48
Dorilla in Tempe, RV 709, Act I: Rete, Iacci e strali adopra
Track length4:14
Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727, Act II: Aria: Se garrisce la rondinella
Track length6:11
Griselda, RV 718, Act III: Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori
Track length6:34
Tito Manlio, RV 738, Act II: Aria: Fra la procelle del mar turbato
Track length4:43
La fida ninfa, RV 714, Act III: Aria: Dite, oime! Ditelo, al fine
Track length2:38
Giustino, RV 717, Act I: Aria: Nacque al bosco e nacque al prato
Track length4:07
Tito Manlio, RV 738, Act III: Aria: Tu dormi in tante pene
Track length8:40
Ottone in Villa, RV 729, Act I: Aria: Gelosia, tu gia rendi l'alma mia
Track length3:12
Catone in Utica, RV 705, Act II: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto
Track length10:26
Griselda, RV 718, Act III: Aria: Dopo un'orrida procella
Track length4:26

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Awards
    2012
    Finalist - Recital
  • Gramophone Magazine
    July 2012
    Editor's Choice
  • BBC Music Magazine
    September 2012
    Opera Choice

September 2012

One of Invernizzi's virtues is her ability to be fluently articulate and expressive, both in show-stoppers and arias that call for compassion, contemplation and reflection. Unlike some of her rivals, she always resists playing to the gallery. Her technique and sense of theatre are tempered to meet the requirements of the music, making for a musically rewarding as well as dramatically engaging recital.

July 2012

Invernizzi, perhaps the most exciting Italian Baroque soprano today, chooses three of the most flamboyant ['storm' arias] and dazzles with her coruscating yet perfectly controlled coloratura...La Risonanza, pounding, strumming continuo to the fore, match Invernizzi all the way in flair and theatrical intensity...In sum, another winner for La Risonanza and a triumph for Invernizzi.

October 2012

La Risonanza is irreproachable. Under Bonizzoni’s expert direction, its soloists, alert strings and inventive continuo team of cello, double bass, harpsichord and, by turns, a very attractive archlute and theorbo provide Invernizzi with an unfailing sensitive support.

22nd April 2012

In Da due venti, from Ercole sul Termodonte, and Fra le procelle del mar turbato (Tito Manlio), she plunges into Cecilia Bartoli waters — her technique is more fluid, even if her timbre is edgier. Her bright, intense voice comes into its own in the slow numbers.
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