"Quella che tutta fé" (Ann Hallenberg, "Serse")

From Handel's serio-comic opera, "Serse": Arsamene's servant, the cowardly buffoon Elviro (Italian bass Matteo Peirone) reports to Arsamene (Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg) that Romilda has already given her heart to Arsamene's brother, the tyrant King Serse, who has just banished Arsamene from the palace. Hallenberg expresses with a moving delicacy Arsamene's sadness and deep frustration on learning of the supposed infidelity of his betrothed in this melancholic siciliano. (The King's guards take Arsamene away afterwards.) Recitative and aria.

"Quella che tutta fé / per me languia d'amore, / no che più mia non è, / perduto ho il core.
Che pensa il ciel, che fa? / Non sa col suo rigore / punir chi reo se n' va / di tanto errore." -

"The very woman who pined for me / so unswervingly truthful / is no longer mine / and my heart is lost.
What will you do now, ye heavens? / Do you not know that anyone / gulity of such transgression / deserves your implacable rage?"

With Christophe Rousset directing Les Talens Lyriques.

From Dresden Musikfestspiele, 2000.

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[nordfriese81]

ann hallenberg is already one of my favourite singers. am very curious how far she´ll come.

[mariandelochs]

Oh, yes, she's among my top five, or three, right now! Love everything she's recorded thus far (even if I might not like the whole work she's involved in). Glad to meet a fellow admirer of the excellent Ms. Hallenberg! Do hope she comes to perform in the States soon, though! Thanks for the comment!

[stolof]

Shrill voice??? Personally I cant her anything shrill about it what so ever. On the contrary, I find it warmer and more beautiful then any other mezzo voice.

[hzk32]

Yes,maybe she is better if you manage to hear her voice :-)

[Qonsbg]

I don't like her deep and shrill voice. Cecilia Bertoli is a lot better than this one.

[contessabrilliante]

Awsome performer, wonderfully expressive, delivers with such precision, its absolutely delightful.

[stolof]

I completely agree. What a voice, full of colours, and what a natural and sincere approach. Lovely.