NEW YORK – Sometimes Vivica Genaux loves to sing with the precision and breakneck speed of an athlete — in “techno rhythm.”
Other times, the tunes are achingly slow, but still bursting with passion.
The common thread of most of the songs she performs is that they come from obscure archives, silent for centuries.
The four-time Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano is now taking some of the forgotten works by Vivaldi and others on a U.S. tour, in a program called “Pyrotechnics,” after one of her albums.
“It represents fireworks, both the flashy, really fast-moving ones, and also the more delicate ones that glitter and fall like golden fronds,” says Genaux, who is featured on Vivaldi’s “Ercole sul Termodonte” (“Hercules in Thermodon”), which is up for a Grammy next month for best opera recording.
The tour, with Fabio Biondi leading his Europa Galante ensemble, starts Wednesday at Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles a includes Las Vegas and Denver.
On Feb. 2 in New York, Genaux appears at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall with the ensemble based in Parma, Italy — a few hours from the home near Venice she shares with her husband.
It’s far from Genaux’s native Fairbanks, Alaska, where she learned to drive her family’s husky-drawn dog sled, and
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