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Cappella Mediterranea

Château de Versailles spectacle

Conductor

Leonardo García Alarcón

Singer

Mariana Flores

Soprano I

Deborah Cachet

Soprano II

David Sagastume

Countertenor

Valerio Contaldo

Tenor I

Mathias Vidal

Tenor II

Andreas Wolf

Baritone

Rafael Galaz

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Monteverdi : Vêpres de la Vierge

Versailles

France

Château de Versailles

Chapelle royale

Monteverdi : Vêpres de la Vierge: Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) für Chor, Soli und Orchester SV 206 Monteverdi

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Private

Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper) für Chor, Soli und Orchester SV 206

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With the Vespro della Beata Vergine, Monteverdi created one of the first monuments to European sacred music. At once meditative and theatrical, his score is conceived as a sum of prayers that freely calls upon the expression of joy and perhaps even the greatest sensuality. The baroque feeling of the music is already fully present in these truly virtuosic vocal pages, which alternate with moments of profound depth entrusted to the instruments. Keen to recreate the spatial setting of the musical sources as it would have been at St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Leonardo García Alarcón will reveal all the beauty of this music as he directs his Cappella Mediterranea and his Namur Chamber Choir.

Following sumptuous performances by John Eliot Gardiner and Raphaël Pichon at the Royal Chapel, here is a new facet of the Vespers seen through Leonardo García Alarcón’s resolutely Mediterranean eyes.

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Ensemble