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.
