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Virgin Classics is proud to release the deluxe edition of Philippe Jaroussky's critically acclaimed release Caldara: Opera Arias. This exclusive deluxe edition is a 100-page hardcover booklet that includes Jaroussky's notes from his own musicology research for the album. Jaroussky notes, "I'm always very curious and love to go to libraries. When you are in direct contact with manuscripts, it's like you are touching history; it's important for me to do the research myself, to be in direct contact with the material."
Caldara: Opera Arias is Jaroussky's eighth solo album for Virgin Classics and his second recital to be conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. In this program, Jaroussky revives a number of forgotten works by the Venetian-born Antonio Caldara, who made his career in Mantua, Barcelona, Rome and, finally, Vienna. All the arias several recorded for the very first time come from operas with librettos by Metastasio (1698 1782), whose noble texts defined the genre of opera seria.