Cappella Mediteranea

CAPPELLA
MEDITERRANEA

The Baroque music ensemble created and directed by Leonardo García Alarcón

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Leonardo García Alarcón, Saint-Denis 2022
Cappella Mediterranea, Auditorium de Dijon
Mariana Flores, Festival de Saint-Denis 2023
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INTRODUCING
Leonardo García Alarcón

In just a few short years, Argentine conductor, harpsichordist and composer Leonardo García Alarcón has become a leading figure in the world’s top music and opera institutions, from the Opéra de Paris to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and Geneva’s Grand Théâtre.

As a conductor and harpsichordist, he is regularly invited to perform in festivals and concert halls all over the world. In November 2018, he conducted a production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo directed by Sasha Waltz at the Berlin Staatsoper. He is a regular guest of Les Violons du Roy in Canada, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. After triumphantly directing Les Indes Galantes at the Opéra Bastille, he was named best conductor in Forum Opéra’s 2019 awards.

He divides his time between France, Belgium, his native South America and Switzerland. Transmitting knowledge is one of his top priorities, and he has taught Maestro al Cembalo at Geneva’s Haute école de musique since 2002.

In 2020, Leonardo García Alarcón became director of La Cité Bleue, a 300-seat concert hall in Geneva that is currently being renovated. It is due to open in 2024, but its programming already launched in 2023 with an initial season off-site.

 

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Discover our repertoire through over thirty recordings for Alpha Classics, Ambronay Éditions, Ricercar and Naïve.
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CONCERTS // Carte blanche au TKM Théâtre Kléber-Méleau Les 14, 15 et 16 décembre, Omar Porras, directeur du Thé

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📰 PRESSE // Cappella Mediterranea au Teatro Colón Clarín – @clarincom « Il sera difficile d’oublier ce que l’on

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📰 PRESSE // Cappella Mediterranea au Teatro Colón Clarín 👉 https://bit.ly/3TipiLU « Il sera difficile d’oubl

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le 05/12/2023 à 14:06:30

Leonardo García Alarcón et Cappella Mediterranea présentent leurs plus sincères condoléances aux enfants de Leonard

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📽 PROJECTION // “Pasión” Ce jeudi 7 décembre, le réalisateur Jean-Marc Bouzou présentera son documentaire “Pasi

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le 29/11/2023 à 18:12:21

📸 « Les 7 Péchés capitaux » – souvenirs d’un concert exceptionnel au @teatrocolon ! ©️ @anitapouchardserr

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le 29/11/2023 à 17:08:23

📸 Quelques images du concert exceptionnel des “7 Péchés capitaux” au Teatro Colón. Nous n’avons à présent qu’un

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le 28/11/2023 à 16:42:26

✨👏 « La nuit mémorable que nous avons vécue au Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, temple international de la musiqu

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le 28/11/2023 à 14:19:12

#GivingTuesday Cappella Mediterranea a besoin de vous ! Une tournée en Argentine ou au Canada, un parc instrumental

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Cappella Mediterranea

Cappella Mediterranea was founded in 2005 by Swiss-Argentine conductor Leonardo García Alarcón. As the ensemble’s name suggests, its passion is rooted in music from the Mediterranean region, and it aims to offer a new approach to Latin baroque music. Since its inception, Cappella Mediterranea’s repertoire has expanded to include madrigals, polyphonic motets and opera. The ensemble performs in over 45 concerts a year. This blending of genres defines the ensemble’s unique style, as does the rare complicity between Leonardo García Alarcón and his musicians.

Major projects in 2023 include productions of Antonio Draghi’s oratorio, Il Dono della Vita Eterna, and Philippe d’Orléans’ La Jérusalem Délivrée, in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

Cappella Mediterranea’s recordings include over 30 critically acclaimed albums for Ambronay Editions, Naïve, Ricercar and Alpha classics. In 2021 it released Lamenti & Sospiri (Ricercar) with Mariana Flores and Julie Roset, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Alpha classics), with Valerio Contaldo in the title role, and in 2022, the world premiere of Sacrati’s La Finta Pazza (Versailles spectacles). Amore Siciliano, a ‘mini Tosca’ that draws upon 17th and 18th century Italian classical and popular music, is set to be released in 2023

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