Dopo notte (Da Capo) by Handel. Ariodante - Anna Starushkevych

This excerpt is a part of the 'Women and Men of Baroque' concert for the Lviv Early Music Festival 2025 at the Lviv National Philharmonic (Ukraine). The event was the culmination of the British Baroque Delegation to Ukraine project. More details about this important international initiative here: https://annasvoice.substack.com/p/upd...

Produced by ‪@MusicWillSaveTheWorld604‬ , Anna Starushkevych, John McMunn and ‪@LvivNationalPhilharmonic‬

Anna Starushkevych - mezzo-soprano
Pavlo Beznosiuk - first violin
Mykhailo Solonchenko - second violin
Serhii Havryliuk - viola
Petra Hajduchova - harpsichord
Emily Ashton - viola da gamba
Hanna Ivaniushenko - harpsichord
Adriian Khrushch - cello
Dmytro Matsydon - viola da gamba
Denys Levytskyi - bassoon

A quote from Anna Starushkevych:
As a singer-performer delivering the words and meaning, I felt it was important that this particular performance of the aria at the Lviv National Philharmonic be taken out of its operatic context and dedicated to Ukrainians who, on a daily basis, are bravely standing up for everything good in this world — a dedication that was announced to the audience beforehand. Hence my performance here — together with my wonderful colleagues — is not as Ariodante but as a Ukrainian standing with my people, using the text of Dopo notte as a message of faith and hope:

After a night, dark and dreadful,
the sun shines in the sky more beautifully,
and fills the earth with joy;

While in a terrible storm
my little ship is almost swallowed,
it reaches the harbour and touches shore.