Edinburgh International Festival (2003)
(Konzertante Aufführung in der Usher Hall)
Georg Friedrich Händel Amadigi

The Melissa, Catherine Naglestad. This is surely the way to do Handel. She was mercurial, exciting, perverse, sexy, full of a sense of dance (especially in the gigue "Io godo, scherzo e rido"). Her first aria "Ah, spietato", was a knockout, with all the tricks - very soft tone, shimmying rhythmic freedom - of the emotional manipulator. Opera

Melissa's showstopping number at the end of act two was grandiose virtuosic in Catherine Naglestad's performance...
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