An Aria A Day #140
TOBIAS COLE
‘Stimulato dalla gloria’
from Orlando
by George Frideric Handel
Viola Katie Cole
Tobias Cole is one of Australia’s most successful counter-tenors, having performed throughout Australia, the UK and USA. For An Aria A Day, Tobias is joined by his wife Katie on viola to perform Handel’s ‘Stimulato dalla gloria’.
When it first premiered ‘Orlando’ was considered more an artistic rather than popular success. Some 280 years later, the opera seria in three acts is now widely recognised as a masterpiece.