The Orrigoni Songbook
Alessandro Stradella Un angelo del paradiso The Orrigoni Songbook SILVIA FRIGATO ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM / ANDREA DE CARLO Arcana A571 Alessandro Stradella's life reads like a modern-day novel by Donna Leone since his brief biography includes fleeing from matchmaking troubles and surviving an assassination attempt. Yet, just two years after his near-death experience, in 1679, the Genoese aristocracy were entertained by three of Stradella's new operas performed in the Falcone theatre. The running assumption of this extraordinarily delightfully album is that castrato Mark Antonio Orrigoni was in the title role for each opera. Stradella admired him so much that in one letter to a patron he compared Orrigoni's acting to an angel from paradise, thus us the title of this new album and the reasoning behind an imagined songbook of Orrigoni's great Aria collection. [...] To read the full text of this review please visit Gramophone, December 2024
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