About This Song
About "Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 1 : Handel: Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 1: Consolati o bella" by Arleen Augér
Handel’s Orlando offers a moment of consolation, and Augér delivers it with silken assurance. The aria’s gentle sway suggests a hand on a fevered brow, her soprano floating above a bed of plucked strings. There’s no melodrama here—only a poised, almost maternal calm that masks the opera’s underlying madness.