
Twenty years after Cecilia Bartoli’s groundbreaking exploratory CD of arias from heretofore unknown or little known opera by Vivaldi comes another batch of gems by
La verita in cimento (“Truth put to the test”), dating from 1720, is a superb, stageworthy work about a Sultan (Mamud), his wife (Rustena), his
Earlier in his career, Philippe Jaroussky was billed as a “male soprano” and it is easy to hear why: his voice is remarkably feminine. “Heroes”
This opera shares a plot with Scarlatti’s work of the same name, and I advise readers to see my review of that opera for a