Handel: Flavio, Re de Longobardi, HWV 16: Aria "Rompo i lacci, e frango i dardi"
4:57
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Ariosti: Caio Marzio Coriolano: Aria "Sagri numi"
8:24
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Handel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia, HWV 22: Aria "Gelosia, spietata aletto"
4:36
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Excerpt, Handel: Siroe, King of Persia, HWV24
8:20
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Recitativo "Son stanco"
1:26
Aria "Deggio morire, o stelle"
6:54
Excerpt, Handel: Tolomeo, Re di Egitto HWV25
6:28
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Recitativo "Inumano fratel"
1:24
Aria "Stille amare"
5:04
Handel: Floridante, HWV 14: Aria "Ma priva vedrò le stelle"
3:43
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Aria "L'aure che spira"
4:31
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Handel: Ottone, Re di Germanie, HWV 15: Aria "Ah! Tu non sai"
6:08
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Ariosti: Caio Marzio Coriolano: Aria "E' pur il gran piacer"
3:33
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Bononcini, G B: Crispo: Aria "Strazio, scempio, furia e morte"
1:49
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Handel: Radamisto, HWV 12: Aria "Ombra cara"
8:29
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Handel: Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra, HWV 23: Aria "Agitato da fiere tempeste"
4:01
Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort
Even though it was to take more than a year before the first opera performance, 1719 marked the official birth of the Royal Academy of Music, Handel's first London opera company, to which we owe masterpieces such as Giulio Cesare, Ottone or Rodelinda. In addition to Handel as musical director, two other well-known exponents of Italian opera seria, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Battista Bononcini, worked as house composers until 1723. The mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, together with the ensemble Le Consort, presents music by the three masters for the Royal Academy of Music, thus reminding us of the high musical level of that time.