Handel: Theodora (3-CD) – Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres

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Handel: Theodora (3-CD) – Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Artists: Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, John Chest, Il Pomo d’Oro
Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev
Number of Discs: 3
Label: Erato
Release Date: November 23, 2022

Five superb singers portray the characters in Handel’s Theodora under the direction of Maxim Emelyanychev, Chief Conductor of the instrumentalists and choral singers of Il Pomo d’Oro. An elevated and moving oratorio, Theodora tells the story of Christian martyrs in ancient Antioch under Roman occupation. Handel considered it among his best works. 

This recording was made at the end of a concert tour that visited Vienna, Milan, Paris, Luxembourg and Essen. “An evening of top-flight singing of a kind that is only rarely experienced,” was how one German reviewer summed up the performance, while in France it resulted in “a state of bliss.”



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