Gestures are common in baroque opera performances, to help communicate the content and is a way to be more expressive with the whole body while performing. I wanted to explore baroque gestures to improve and expand my capacity to communicate through expressive movement, to develop my own skills as an opera singer and to add another important layer to my baroque performance. I have analysed La Messaggiera’s aria, Un in fiorito prato, from Claudio Monteverdi’s opera L’Ofreo. This by analysing the character, the aria and the music, including a poetic and word by word translation. I chose words from the aria and combined them with gestures. Overall, three recordings were made; one baseline, to show how I usually perform and two recordings applying and developing the gestures. The second and the third recordings were evaluated by myself and three separate reviewers, by comparing the recordings and providing feedback on my baroque gesture performance development. The feedback stated that the applied gestures helped to convey the dramatic content and enhanced my sense of phrasing and helped to reinforce the soft and loud contrasts of the singing. This helped to enhance the reviewers’ perceptions of the character’s emotional expression of the aria. I will continue to develop my knowledge and use of baroque gestures when performing baroque opera repertoire.