For their second Handel opera for Naïve, Eduardo López Banzo and Al Ayre Español have chosen Rodrigo and have received a great review from Opera magazine in their issue of February 2010.
Below are the highlights of the review:
“It has been a decade since Alan Curtis’s pioneering recording of Handel’s first opera for Italy, so time is ripe for another, especially one that competes as effectively as this.”
”Maria Riccarda Wesseling’s lyric mezzo-soprano sounds quite at home in the music of Rodrigo”
”From the start, Sharon Rostorf-Zamir responds to Florinda more heated personality with vivid delivery of both recitative and arias.”
”Kobie van Rensburg sings with vitality and bravura skill”
”The countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic brings an attractively mellow sound to Rodrigo’s general Fernando, who is an unusual development for opera seria is killed on stage.”
”Anne-Catherine Gillet sings Evanco’s dramatically charged music with conviction and panache.”
”López Banzo varies the make-up of the continuo group without overstepping stylistic boundaries, and his accompaniments of the lyrical numbers are colourful and incisive.”
By GEORGE LOOMIS
If you wish to read the full article please refer to the February 2010 issue of Opera magazine.
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