Baráth, Vistoli y el Ensemble Artaserse exploran el amor en Handel

By Aaron Vincent, 18 November 2025

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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 16 November 2025

Handel, Rinaldo, HWV7: Sinfonia

Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Furie terribili

Handel, Rinaldo, HWV7: Cara sposa

Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Abbrugio avampo e fremo

Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Ah! crudel

Handel, Alcina, HWV 34: Overture

Handel, Alcina, HWV 34: Ah! mio cor!

Handel, Alcina, HWV 34: Mi lusinga il dolce affetto

Handel, Alcina, HWV 34: Ah, Ruggiero crudel

Handel, Alcina, HWV 34: Ombre pallide

Handel, Ariodante, HWV33: Overture

Handel, Ariodante, HWV33: Vezzi, lusinghe, e brio

Handel, Ariodante, HWV33: Scherza infida

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Sinfonia bellica

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Che sento o Dio

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Se pietà di me non senti

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Caro! Bella!

Philippe Jaroussky, Conductor

Emőke Baráth, Soprano

Carlo Vistoli, Countertenor

Ensemble Artaserse

Devieilhe's Cleopatra reigns in Michieletto's muddled Egyptology show

Mark Pullinger, 11th May

The French soprano delivers an A-list performance as the Egyptian queen, donning a variety of Hollywood guises at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

***11

Hungarian Handelian delights: Emőke Baráth enchants at Müpa

Orsolya Gyárfás, 2nd March

The opening night of Müpa’s Early Music Festival had all the makings of an excellent concert and it delivered in abundance.

****1

Handelian dream team: Jaroussky and Baráth delight in Budapest

Orsolya Gyárfás, 13th September

Philippe Jaroussky and Emőke Baráth's team-up with the Ensemble Artaserse proved nothing short of wonderful.

****1

Baroque drama: Philippe Jaroussky's Handel

Kevin W Ng, 26th November

Jaroussky and his Ensemble Artaserse provide moments of sublimity in Handel's lesser-known opera arias

****1

Bartoli and Jaroussky enchant at Wigmore Hall

Nahoko Gotoh, 24th June

Considering how rarely celebrated diva Cecilia Bartoli appears in London, Wigmore Hall certainly pulled off a coup by making her duo concert with Philippe Jaroussky happen.

****1

Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky sing Purcell

Travis Mason, 7th December

The countertenor voice seems to polarise opinion like no other - you either love it or hate it, there is little middle ground - and even amongst the aficionados (in whose number I count myself), there can be strong, almost tribal allegiances to one school or another and sometimes to individual proponents.

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Aaron Vincent

Aaron Vincent nació en Londres en 1970 y reside en Madrid. Formado como arquitecto en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, es profesor de inglés, corrector y traductor especializado en teatro y musicología. Su interés principal es el teatro lírico y siente especial predilección por la ópera barroca y la zarzuela, en todas sus etapas y formatos. Es habitual de las temporadas musicales de Madrid y París. Ha colaborado con Filomúsica y Mundoclásico.

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