Xerxes by Händel, Dv. 29 Març 2019, De (2019/2019), Director musical Ottavio Dantone, Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Serse – live recording is the second HDB Sonus release with Ottavio Dantone e Accademia Bizantina. At the height of his operatic career, Händel wrote a masterpiece that defied the tastes of the time. With a nod to the structures of seventeenth-century opera, Händel composed a score that amazes today for its originality and variety. A drama for music that departs from the typical opera production of the 1730s: arias of all kinds, ariosi, recitatives embedded in the arias, love, jealousy, betrayal, all seasoned with an unusual comic element.