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.
