Arias for Domenico Gizzi Roberta Invernizzi & Laboratorio '600

• Francesco Feo (1691-1761)
• 1Andromaca: Prima 'l vorace fulmine04:33
• Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1793)
• 2Didone abbandonata: Amor che nasce04:19
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
• 3Crude parche04:23
• 4Sinfonia02:27
• 5O a morire o a goder01:57
• Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778)
• 6L'Eupatra: Per due pupille belle04:15
• Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747)
• 7Amore inganna02:55
• 8Barbari siete, o Dei04:54
• Domenico Natale Sarro (1679-1744)
• 9Sinfonia02:55
• 10Povero amor tradito04:17
• Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)
• 11Adelaide: Volo il mio sangue a spargere03:48
• Domenico Natale Sarro (1679-1744)
• 12Il Valdemaro: La brama di regno03:49
• 13Ginevra principessa di Scozia: Cieca nave, infidi sguardi03:01
• Francesco Feo (1691-1761)
• 14Andromaca: No, non mi bastera bocca vezzosa04:20
• Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1793)
• 15Didone abbandonata: Su la pendice alpina04:48
• Total Runtime56:41

Info for Arias for Domenico Gizzi

A new Antonio Florio-directed recording from Glossa, once more focusing on a famous Italian singer from the Baroque era, again features the gorgeous vocal qualities of a modern-day Italian interpreter of such music, Roberta Invernizzi. This new and glorious succession of virtuoso arias had captivated audiences in the newly-reopened Roman theatres through the vocal chords of one eminent singer from 1718 onwards...

Arias for Domenico Gizzi traces the spectacular career of an artist whose importance lay not just in his voice, but his skill in being engaged to sing in operas which served the political needs of the powerful early 18th-century patrons: from Queen Christina of Sweden and James Stuart, “The Old Pretender” to Roman cardinals. Roberta Invernizzi’s choice of arias from across Gizzi’s years of glory, typically representing heroic male characters, draws on operas by Alessandro Scarlatti, Leonardo Vinci, Domenico Sarro, Francesco Feo, Giovanni Battista Costanzi, Giovanni Bononcini and Nicola Porpora.

As ever, Antonio Florio leads a zestful I Turchini for this new recording, whilst Giulia Veneziano, in her booklet essay, opens up what, for many, will be a previously uncharted voyage into the history of singing in its own right.

Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
I Turchini
Antonio Florio, conductor

Recorded in Naples on 5-8 February 2014
Engineered and produced by Rino Trasi

Roberta Invernizzi
has become one of the outstanding voices of Baroque music in modern times, contributing with her crystalline soprano and an unfailing dramatic sense to the rediscovery of much neglected music, from Italy in particular. Hailing from Milan, Roberta Invernizzi’s music studies initially encompassed the piano and the double bass before she took up singing under the guidance of Margaret Heyward, later specializing in both Baroque and Classical era music.

Invernizzi’s talent for characterization has been superbly demonstrated across the Gramophone Award-winning series of recordings on Glossa of Handel’s chamber cantatas in Italian with Fabio Bonizzoni, through her visceral and vivid portrayals of Arcadian characters from goddesses and nymphs to shepherdesses. Her prowess there led Fabio Bonizzoni to write recitatives with her in mind for his creation of a pasticcio opera in Gli strali d’Amore, with arias by André Campra. The flamboyant revival in recent years of music from the Neapolitan Baroque led by Antonio Florio and I Turchini owes much to Roberta Invernizzi’s contributions, whilst on the opera stage diverse roles in recent years have seen her perform in Handel’s Rinaldo and Agrippina, Vivaldi’s Ercole sul Termodonte and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea (as well as in Mozart, Grétry and Berton). Reactions from the international press have praised her singing for its “intensity and delicacy, her control of pitch and phrase production”, her “great radiance of tone” as well as frequent notes of approval for her sensitivity, refinement and subtlety.

In addition to her presence in the Handel Cantatas series (there is also a “Portrait” release, Handel in Italy) and the Campra Gli strali d’Amore, Invernizzi’s long-standing musical partnership with Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza has led to a disc of both well- and lesser-known opera arias by Antonio Vivaldi with Invernizzi cast very much in the solo spotlight. Invernizzi regularly works also with other leading conductors of the music of Vivaldi such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alan Curtis and Fabio Biondi, among others.

Booklet for Arias for Domenico Gizzi