But in some arias the inappropriate baroque guitar supplants theorbo.
Some arias have an incipient da capo structure, and Provenzale was famous for his expressive laments with chromatic bass lines.
The evening was devoted to the festival's namesake, with performances of an opera overture, a popular piano concerto, some arias for tenor and the "Prague" Symphony.
From "Mosè" to "Moïse" the opera gained an act, characters were renamed, some arias were cut, others were taken from one character and given to another, and new music was added, including a ballet.
He reassigned some arias to different voices and tightened up the score a bit by cutting a chorus ("Let all the angels") and an aria ("Thou art gone up"), and turning the soprano aria "If God be for us" into a newly composed, fleet-paced recitative.
As part of the Lincoln Center Handel series, she is joined by London Baroque, a fine period-instrument band, in a concert that includes the motet "O Qualis de Coelo Sonus," "Salve Regina," "Laudate Pueri" and some arias.
Again, if you and Martha are having people over and you need to rip some arias onto the iPod for connecting to the in-wall Bose sound system, I'm sure the iLoad is for you.
Monteverdi wrote plain and embellished versions of some arias, such as Orfeo's "Possente spirito", but according to Harnoncourt "it is obvious that where he did not write any embellishments he did not want any sung".
For nearly 20 years, Verdi made many revisions: cutting some arias, ensembles, even whole scenes; adding new ones; restoring some previous cuts; taking them out again; composing new music.
Ms. Oropesa gave agile, clean and stylish accounts of some coloratura aria favorites, including "Caro Nome" from "Rigoletto".
