Did you know that this recording of Orfeo caught Anthony Rolfe Johnson in the middle of a vocal crisis?fergus wrote:Recent listening: Gardiner's version of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo....
....a wonderful version and that opeing sequence is to die for I think.
He doesn´t sound that bad, but maybe he is more reserved than usual. By the time the recording was over he thought his career was over too. Fortunately after a few months of rest his voice came back and Solti offered him the role of Cassio in Pavarotti´s Chicago Symphony recording of Otello.
I always think of him as my all time favorite Handel tenor, what a pity that his last years were so terrible.