All this talk about starting with Handel makes me think about an audition I sang last year for a famously cranky Viennese agent. I was all psyched up and ready to go in there and knock some sox off with a kick-ass bravura Handel piece as my opener.
That is, until I got in the room, and the guy asks me (in German, in his sly Wienerisch accent), "So, what piece would you like to begin with -- OTHER THAN the Handel?"
Uhhh...I guess I'll have to go with "plan B."
Some people just aren't into the Baroque music. Know thy audience. (But I agree that a Handel aria is a good thing to have around, since it's done more and more nowadays.)
Marschallin
"Jedes Ding hat seine Zeit."
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