The Great Voices Sing John Denver tribute album highlighted many newer singers that I was unfamiliar with. One of them is Danielle De Niese who sang Rhymes and Reasons on it. I saw this performance of her on NPR Music Live and then downloaded her CD Baroque Songs. She sings with a sense of fun and with her part south Asian ancestry is like the Norah Jones of opera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40GrNQnXlN0
NPR Music Live performance -
Let the Bright Seraphim
Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
What if I Never Speed
Quel Sguardo Sdegnosetto
she explains how she warms up her singing voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rmjmaic5d0
