Arie Antiche
Alfredo Kraus, tenor

It is appropriate that Alfredo Kraus, the grand seigneur of the operatic stage, should turn his attention to these arias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for they must be among the first he ever learned; since the end of the last century, singing teachers all over the world have drawn upon this repertoire to inculcate into their pupils the technique and style of what we call ‘bel canto’, the Italian perfection of vocal art that graced a vanished age of elegance.