Handel (CD) – Sonya Yoncheva

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Artists: Sonya Yoncheva, Karine Deshayes, Academia Montis Regalis
Conductor: Alessandro de Marchi
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Sony
CD Release Date: February 3, 2017

Sonya Yoncheva devotes her second solo album to the music of Handel, showing another facet of her wide-ranging repertoire. As an alumna of William Christie’s Le Jardin des Voix, the Baroque era formed her musical understanding at an early stage of her career, laying the foundation for her versatile and broad-reaching repertoire. Currently praised as “the best Traviata in the world at present” (Die Welt), Sonya Yoncheva is one of today’s fastest rising opera stars. She is a regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper, Berlin State Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, and l’Opéra de Paris.

A great composer of vocal music, Handel based some of his most beautiful operas and oratories on the enchanting sensibility of the feminine voice. His heroines are strong, independent women determining their own destiny – attributes Yoncheva relates to in all respects.

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