Cappella Mediteranea

Falvetti, Nabucco

Nabucco Falvetti, Le Brassus Suisse, Cappella Mediterranea

Falvetti uses this palette of different styles and melodic, rhythmic and harmonic variations to masterfully portray each character at different moments in the plot and underline the meanings of the text.

Le timbre chaud de Mariana Flores dans la fournaise de « Nabucco » Les excellents musiciens de la Cappella Mediterranea et du Chœur de chambre de Namur, sous la direction électrisante de Leonardo García Alarcón, ont magistralement servi cette partition riche et contrastée, étonnamment théâtrale, subtile et sensuelle. Le chef d’orchestre argentin y a finement intégré des percussions iraniennes, flûtes ney et kaval, hautbois duduk, venus des traditions turco-arméniennes. Le solide plateau de solistes a été largement dominé par le timbre chaud et l’engagement radieux de la soprano argentine Mariana Flores.

Marie-Aude Roux

Sous les voûtes de l’abbatiale d’Ambronay, la magie de la métamorphose opère d’emblée.

Fabrice Malkani

A six-voice biblical dialogue

Michelangelo Falvetti (1642 – 1692) composed many works, including polyphonic masses, concertante psalms and motets for soloists or several voices with basso continuo. Only two magnificent Dialoghi have survived in their entirety: Il Diluvio universale, a work for five voices that dates from 1682, and Il Nabucco, a work for six voices first performed in Messina in 1683. In these two masterful scores, Falvetti demonstrates what an accomplished musician he is. He was an expert in the Roman and Venetian Baroque musical traditions, and his music is characterised by a Baroque sensuality and expressiveness. These qualities already emerged in Leonardo García Alarcón’s refined interpretation of Diluvio universale, with Cappella Mediterranea and the Chœur de chambre de Namur (Ambronay Festival 2010 and 2011). Nabucco is no less extraordinary.

Program

Il Dialogo de Nabucco

Performance running time: 1 hour 30 minutes with intermission

Cast

Leonardo García Alarcón, direction

Valerio Contaldo, tenor – Nabucco
Mariana Flores, soprano – Azaria/idolatria
Lucia Martin Carton, soprano – Misaele
Ana Quintans, soprano – Anania/Superbia
Nicolò Balducci, countertenor – Arioco
Rafael Galaz Ramirez, bass – Daniele
Matteo Bellotto, bass – Eufrate

Chœur de chambre de NamurChœur des Chaldéen
Cappella Mediterranea

Prochaines dates

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A production of the Festival d’Ambronay.

Archive

28 Avril 2017

20h00

Antwerp, De Singel, Belgium

29 Avril 2017

14h15

Amsterdam, The Concertgebouw, Netherlands

02 Mai 2017

20h00

Lille, Opéra France

03 Mai 2017

20h30

Dijon, Opéra France

10 Novembre 2019

17h00

Rencontres Culturelles de la Vallée de Joux

Le Brassus, Switzerland

21 Mars 2021

17h00

Victoria Hall - Les Concerts du Dimanche

Geneva, Switzerland