Name: Monteverdi’s Orfeo
Start: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: La Seine Musicale

Organization

Conductor

Leonardo García Alarcón

Tenor

Valerio Contaldo

Orfeo

Soprano

Mariana Flores

Euridice

Giuseppina Bridelli

The messenger

Anna Reinhold

Proserpina

Bass

Alejandro Meerapfel

Pluto

Salvo Vitale

Caronte

Alessandro Giangrande

Apollo

First shepherd

Matteo Bellotto

Second shepherd

Baritone

Nicholas Scott

Third shepherd

First spirit

Echo

Music

Hope

Others

Chœur de Chambre de Namur

Orchestra

Insula Orchestra

Cappella Mediterranea

La Seine Musicale

Monteverdi’s Orfeo

Boulogne-Billancourt

France

L'Orfeo Monteverdi

Public

Juan Sebastián Cáceres Lara

Approved

orfeo mediterranean chapel

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo is naturally an iconic work for Leonardo García Alarcón. The Argentinian conductor has performed and matured his interpretation of Monteverdi’s masterpiece throughout his life. Together with his group of soloists, the Namur Chamber Choir and the Cappella Mediterranea ensemble, he now presents his vision of L’Orfeo: Monteverdi’s opera is as much the apotheosis of the Renaissance as a testimony to the nascent Baroque style. This is what strikes us when we listen to this new recording, which so eloquently emphasises the contrasts between sometimes nostalgic glances towards the past and the most innovative expressions of operatic language. The printed score, published two years after the premiere in Mantua in 1607, offers contrasts too: is it the snapshot of a specific performance or a ‘blueprint’ intended for future performers? In fact, it is both, and that is where we find the tricky questions that must be answered by those who open this precious document; Leonardo García Alarcón does so here in a manner at once respectful, inventive and theatrical.

Monteverdi’s Orfeo: L'Orfeo Monteverdi

The very first opera in the history of music served by Leonardo García Alarcón.

Leonardo García Alarcón puts his musicality and sense of drama at the service  of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo  , considered the very first opera in the history of Western music. If the score is known, it finds new sounds thanks to the historical research of the Argentinian conductor and his Cappella Mediterranea ensemble. Together, they questioned instrumentation, dynamics, tempo, to deliver a version as readable and expressive as it is natural.

English

Le tout premier opéra de l’histoire de la musique servi par Leonardo García Alarcón.

Leonardo García Alarcón met sa musicalité et son sens de la dramaturgie au service de L’Orfeo de Monteverdi, considéré comme le tout premier opéra de l’histoire de la musique occidentale. Si la partition est connue, elle trouve des sonorités inédites grâce aux recherches historiques du chef argentin et à son ensemble Cappella Mediterranea. Ensemble, ils ont questionné instrumentation, dynamiques, tempi, pour livrer une version aussi lisible et expressive que naturelle.

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Ensemble

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