Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Singer

Soprano

Mariana Flores

Music

Anna Reinhold

Proserpina

Bass

Alejandro Meerapfel

Pluto

Nicholas Scott

Third spirit

Tenor

Echo

Alessandro Giangrande

Apollo

Leandro Marziotte

Second shepherd

Julie Roset

The nymph

Conductor

Leonardo García Alarcón

Valerio Contaldo

Performers

Orfeo

Euridice

Salvo Vitale

Caronte

First shepherd

Baritone

Third shepherd

Matteo Bellotto

Fourth shepherd

Coline Dutilleul

The messenger

Hope

Others

Cappella Mediterranea

Chœur de Chambre de Namur

Iodáilis

L'Orfeo -  (Orfeo)

Aix-en-Provence

France

Grand Théâtre de Provence

L'Orfeo Monteverdi

Public

Fraincis

Béarla

Approved

The myth of Orpheus – a poet who, by the sheer grace of his song, obtains from the Underworld that they return to him the one he loves, who disappeared too soon – haunts the origins of lyrical art. To echo the Coronation of Poppaea , Monteverdi's last opera, Leonardo García Alarcón and the Cappella Mediterranea perform a concert version of L'Orfeo, the composer's first opera, often considered the first true opera in history. In this humanist eulogy of the civilizing power of art and the mastery of passions ending in luminous apotheosis, Monteverdi deploys an infinite variety of forms, styles and atmospheres: dance rhythms abound; the most eloquent declamation alternates with the most beautiful melodic inspirations and the most spectacular vocalizations. After having embodied Testo in Combattimento, the theory of the black swan (2021), Valerio Contaldo confronts the composer's other supremely complex and virtuoso score, culminating in a crossing of the Underworld where beauty competes with difficulty.

English

Orfeo by Monteverdi, Ó (2022/2022), Seoltóir Leonardo García Alarcón, Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid