About This Song
About "Amadigi di Gaula (1715): Aria Sento la gioia (III, 6)" by Bejun Mehta
‘Sento la gioia’—I feel joy—but Mehta’s tone carries a shadow. Handel’s Amadigi aria sparkles with pastoral lightness, yet the countertenor’s phrasing lingers, as if joy is a fragile bubble about to burst. A bittersweet celebration, suspended between ecstasy and elegy.