A powerful dramatic coloratura soprano voice. Famous Queen of the night, Odabella , Armida, Abigaile. Some may dislike her technique. I beleive she has one of the purest, clearest soprano voices of the 20th century.
Animated Chagall s lithographs from Teriade s book Daphnis & Chloe, an ancient Greek tale. Created together with my highschool students in Lesvos-Mytilene- Greece, in 2007.
The story concerns Frankish soldiers on a Crusade in the Holy Land. The hero Rinaldo gets distracted from his quest by Armida, the daughter of the King of Damascus. She uses her evil spells to seduce him, and two of his comrades have to enter her magic garden to bring him to his senses and rescue him.
At the end of the opera a Chorus of Demons announces that
Armida is going to Hell.
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