![]() ![]() The figures of women prey to the vagaries of fate and the throes of passion abound in this central style of baroque music. Handel was one of the most fertile composers of this form. The most theatrical librettos soon found the finest musical setting, giving birth to tragedies in music, giving way to opera seria in Italy. Tragedy has always inspired the most beautiful pages to musicians. The Czech ensemble contributed among other to the rediscovery of Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis in Versailles and of Vivaldi’s opera Arsilda. Václav Luks will accompany her with his Collegium 1704. The famous Czech mezzo-soprano, a wonderful interpreter of great baroque heroines, Magdalena Kožená, will lend her sensuous and expressive voice to her favourite repertoire.
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