Fame and immortality but at what cost?
From the 1994 movie Farinelli, an aria from Handel's opera, Rinaldo, Lascia ch'io pianga..."Let me ponder my cruel fate, I long for freedom."
First the bel canto revival spearheaded by Maria Callas in the fifties, it seems that the baroque repertory is enjoying a recrudescence as well, thanks to artists like mezzo Cecilia Bartoli and counter tenor Philippe Jaroussky.
It is now possible to listen to the impossibly-difficult repertoire of Handel, Vivaldi and even Farinelli's brother Ricardo Broschi.
From the 1994 movie Farinelli, an aria from Handel's opera, Rinaldo, Lascia ch'io pianga..."Let me ponder my cruel fate, I long for freedom."
First the bel canto revival spearheaded by Maria Callas in the fifties, it seems that the baroque repertory is enjoying a recrudescence as well, thanks to artists like mezzo Cecilia Bartoli and counter tenor Philippe Jaroussky.
It is now possible to listen to the impossibly-difficult repertoire of Handel, Vivaldi and even Farinelli's brother Ricardo Broschi.
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