One of my favourite Handel arias. Agonised. Suits my personality. Check out also the interpretation by Breton counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky and the bizarre but wonderful version by the late Klaus Nomi.
I’ve also been singing Josh Groban’s You Raise Me Up; also And This is My Beloved, from Borodin’s Kismet. I love this hissing and spitting (well in my interpretation it’s hissing and spitting!) alliterative line from Beloved:
Strange Spice from the South!
Ann
Angelic voice.
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Ironically, yes. Farinelli was a true castrato. Famed in his day.
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