Chouchane Siranossian – the guest of honour at the Festivals de Wallonie in 2019 –reunited with Leonardo García Alarcón in May 2020 to inaugurate this programme that is centred on Bach's violin repertoire. The concert took place at the Opéra de Dijon after the first lockdown.
Leonardo García Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea combine their musical and theatrical talents to bring two of Bach’s secular Cantatas to the stage. These works were inspired by Greek mythology and unfold like one-act plays, featuring characters like Pallas, Pan, Zephyr, Aeolus and Phoebus. They reveal to us a different, lesser-known side of Bach - one that emerged in Leipzig’s famed coffeehouse, Café Zimmermann.