Скачать или смотреть Gianna Rolandi - Handel: ORLANDO, Quando spieghi tuoi tormenti, Chicago 1983

THE SONGBIRD: Gianna Rolandi (1952 - 2021) was a leading coloratura soprano at the New York City Opera in the 1970s and 1980s. She made her debut there as Olympia in "Tales of Hoffmann" in 1975 right after graduating from the Curtis Institute and basically stayed on the roster for 15 years in over 30 roles. (You can hear her NYCO debut performances and others on my channel). She was a Met Auditions finalist in 1974 and sang several seasons at The Met (Sophie, Olympia, Rossignol, and Zerbinetta), as well as making many appearances around the U.S. I heard her in San Diego as Ophelia in 1983 and met her backstage! Rolandi also made select guest performances at major venues and festivals abroad before she retired from singing in 1994 at the age of 42.

THE MUSIC: Handel's "Orlando" premiered in London in 1733. It was revived once in 1922, but was truly rediscovered in the baroque and Handel resurgence of the 1960s and 1970s and is now regarded as a masterpiece. The character of Dorinda is a shepherdess who gets entwined in the amorous complications of other characters in her thwarted attempts to find love for herself. This aria "Quando spieghi tuoi tormenti" opens Act Two and finds Dorinda in a pensive mood as she echoes the melancholy tune of the nightingales. This performance from Chicago, conducted by Charles MacKerras, shows a plaintive side to Rolandi, who was so often associated with glittering coloratura music. Dorinda's big florid aria "Amor e qual vento" is available on YouTube on another channel here:
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