
Jan Dismas Zelenka is one of the most consistent sources […]
Oh no, Julia! I loved you so. Your Rossini CD was great–filled with flights of coloratura as well as darker, introspective moments. Your lovely Roseanne
This CD begins with a bravura aria from Handel’s La Resurrezione that is lit into with such mania that you could imagine flames bursting from
Hasse was a major 18th century composer, up there with Handel. He was married to the even more famous soprano, Faustina Bordoni; they were what
Handel’s Alessandro is practically a comic opera despite having as its hero the not-particularly-amusing Alexander the Great. Rather than focusing on his warrior image, the
Julia Lezhneva, a protégé of Kiri Te Kanawa, is a 21(!)-year-old Russian soprano with a pretty, round face, who made her professional debut at 16.