à la mémoire de Bellini by Donizetti, mer 08 giu 2016, Da (2016/2016), Direttore d'orchestra Leonardo García Alarcón, Basilique, Saint-Denis-en-Val, Francia

Leonardo García Alarcón is part of the galaxy of artists that the Festival has supported for several editions. In parallel with the Italian Baroque whose conductor has makes a specialty and in which he seems born, the Festival gave him proposed last year a first foray into the Baroque French, on the occasion of The Last Night, directed by John Bellorini. The Festival invites Leonardo García Alarcón to cross a new stage, temporal this time, by exploring the “Bel canto” of a most lyrical and ambitious Requiem, signed of a master of the genre, Donizetti, in memory of another specialist, his friend and rival Bellini. What a beautiful song in perspective! In the imposing polyphony of a choir or the virtuoso and operatic brilliance solo arias, refined and sensual melodies reign master and go through all the moods of the text, the drama in contemplation. A Bel Canto Requiem, released from the shadows at the end of the last century, and brought back to light today in Saint-Denis by a fervent lover of Italian music.