Arias

"The velvety patina and fierce core strength of the Italian bass-baritone is on show here in a patterning of both popular operatic and rarer concert arias...He shifts from the expression of astonishment to regret, from pride to shame within Leporello's 'Catalogue' aria"
(BBC Music)

"D'Arcangelo's savour of text, crucial in Mozart's recitatives, is second to none in this repertoire today...All non-Italian aspirants to Figaro, Leporello and Giovanni should listen to this disc to hear exemplary diction and communication of the text: D'Arcangelo lives the roles precisely because he understands what he is singing and is able to project its meaning so vividly."
(INternational Record Review)

From the outset of his career, bass-baritone Ildebrando D'Arcangelo has been the pre-eminent Mozart man in his Fach. For his all-Italian Mozart album under Gianandrea Noseda, he delivers numbers famous and rare that brim with vocal distinction and interpretive panache.

D'Arcangelo's awesome Don Giovanni ("Champagne Aria") and uproarious Leporello ("Catalogue Aria") establish his wide emotional range. Excerpts of his much anticipated Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, which goes public in Paris in 2011 (followed by Vienna and L.A.), and his notable Figaro highlight other facets of D'Arcangelo's command as a Mozartian.

With its unusually prominent writing for the double bass, the concert aria, "Per questa bella mano", is a composition out of the ordinary; it shows that in addition to being a master of character creation, D'Arcangelo is a master of pure singing.

"Ildebrando D'Arcangelo is a complete knock-out as Leporello − charming, funny, sexy. What a difference a native Italian speaker makes in the role", says The Independent