Monteverdi: L’Orfeo / Leonardo García Alarcón

The story of this opera starts with an introduction by La Musica, the music in person: Claudio Monteverdi opens his version of the ancient love story of Orpheus and Eurydice with the prologue: the singer, whose voice could even wake the dead. Conductor Leonardo García Alarcón has this epic work with his Cappella Mediterranea specialised in early music firmly in his repertoire and says: »If life, death, love and music are the driving forces of humanity, L’Orfeo is perhaps the opera which epitomises them best.«

PERFORMERS

Cappella Mediterranea ensemble

Chœur de Chambre de Namur choir

Valerio Contaldo tenor

Mariana Flores soprano

Giuseppina Bridelli mezzo-soprano

Edward Grint bass baritone

Salvo Vitale bass

Alessandro Giangrande tenor

Leandro Marziotte countertenor

Matteo Bellotto bass

Nicholas Scott tenor

Estelle Lefort soprano

Philippe Favette bass baritone

Leonardo García Alarcón conductor

PROGRAM

Claudio Monteverdi
L’Orfeo

Concert performance in Italian with German surtitles

The concert takes place with an interval.