Cleopatra

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In 2002, the beautiful Canadian-Armenian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian scored a major success when she appeared as Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, in Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare for the Canadian Opera Company. As one critic observed at that time, "Cleopatra is one of Handel’s most superb, and psychologically intricate, creations. The luminous Bayrakdarian has made a wonderful beginning in a role she will surely take to the great stages of the world—at first childishly seductive, then calculating, and ultimately revealing a profound nobility and vulnerability." For her third CD for CBC Records, Ms. Bayrakdarian has chosen arias from four works focusing on the Egyptian femme-fatale.

contents:


from Cleopatra e Cesare by Carl Heinrich Graun

1 - Tra le procelle assorto
2 - Se avvien che si posi
3 - Sento mio dolce amore

from Antonio e Cleopatra by Johann Adolf Hasse

4 - Morte col fiero aspetto
5 - Quel candido armellino
6 - Un sol tuo sospiro

from Giulio Cesare, HWV 17 by George Frideric Handel

7 - V'adoro pupille
8 - E pur così in un giorno
9 - Piangerò la sorte mia

from Cleopatra by Johann Mattheson

10 - Was ist der Liebe Brauch
11 - Gute Nacht
12 - Mein Leben ist hin
13 - Nun ist es Zeit
14 - Wer in seinem Busen nährt Basilisk
15 - Darum komm, komm, giftiges Geschmeiß


Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
dir. Jeanne Lamon