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Here’s what Opera News said about this World Premiere recording and winner of the 2002 International Handel Prize:

This set does make abundantly clear why mezzo Vivica Genaux is widely hailed as one of opera’s up-and-coming “it” girls. Something special happens when she starts to sing – something that sets off a thrill, something that her warm, vibrant tone, razor-sharp diction, boldness of attack and sensational technique only begin to explain. Genaux has…pizzazz? Élan? Decide for yourself, but try not to miss the defiance with which she spits out the captive prince’s recitative in Act III, or the sheer spunk she brings to the wickedly difficult ‘Fatto scorta al sentier di gloria.’
- M. Lignana Rosenberg, Opera News, December 2001