Sicily, land of passions, was home to Alessandro Scarlatti, as well as to several other composers less well-known today, like Sigismondo d’India and Cataldo Amodei. The Cappella Mediterranea ensemble and its...

Although named in every history of music as an important composer and as one of the creators of the Italian madrigal, principally known for the madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno and even more so by an incorrectly...

DISTRIBUTIONSophie Junker, soprano : Momus, PallasKacper Szelążek, contre-ténor : Mercurius, PomonaFabio Trümpy, ténor : TmolusMark Milhofer, ténor : MidasAlejandro Meerapfel, baryton :...

Leonardo García Alarcón, conductorChœur de Chambre de NamurCappella MediterraneaGiuseppina Bridelli, sopranoMarianne Beate Kielland, sopranoPaulin Bündgen, altoValerio Contaldo,...

  Carmina Latina - Leonardo García Alarcón from Ozango on Vimeo. During the conquest of the ‘Americas’, Spanish and Portuguese priests exported their tradition of polyphonic music to...

Watch it CultureboxDrama per musica en un prologue et trois actes, représenté au Teatro San Apollinare, à Venise, le 26 (ou le 30) décembre 1655. Erismena (1655) of Francesco...

The musical training of Giovanni Paolo Colonna (Bologna, 1637 - 1695) took place initially in his city of origin, and then in Rome, where he had important musicians as masters, including Antonio Maria Abbatini,...

In the tradition of Carissimi and Handel, Falvetti’s very original music expresses the strong cross-cultural dimension of Sicily, a land blending singing from the East and West. Il Diluvio...

Cappella MediterraneaChœur des Chaldéens : Chœur de chambre de NamurLeonardo García Alarcón – directionAriel Rychter – organ & direction assistant In the...

Few composers paint human emotion as vividly or with greater insight, wit and poignancy than Barbara Strozzi – the pioneering Venetian composer, born 400 years ago, whose songs and madrigals stand alongside...

POPPEA CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567 — 1643) THÉÂTRE DU JEU DE PAUME   IL NERONE, OSSIA L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEAOPERA IN ONE PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTSLIBRETTO...

L'Orfeo - Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) Favola in musica in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Alessandro Striggio, premiered in 1607 at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. Based on the myth of Orpheus...

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Dal mio Permesso amato a voi ne vegno [L’Orfeo, favola in musica, Mantua, 1607]Ed è pur dunque vero [Scherzi Musicali, Venecia, 1632]Pianto della Madonna [Selva morale e...

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINSVices, virtues and passions in Claudio Monteverdi's music A concert that digs deep into the violent and conflicting human emotions. The amorous torments of the madrigals, the pure nobility of...

Récital exceptionnel avec des œuvres de Monteverdi, Cavalli, Strozzi, Stradella, Marin, Gibbons, Ferrabosco, Dowland et Leonardo García Alarcón Distribution Sonya Yoncheva,...

To save his protegé from a fatal destiny, a magician has imprisoned knights and ladies in an enchanted labyrinthine palace and mystifies them to the point of delirium. Luigi Rossi's first opera - boasting...

La Finta Pazza Francesco Paolo Sacrati (1605-1650) Cappella MediterraneaLeonardo García Alarcón ConductorJean Yves Ruf Director   DEIDAMIA Mariana FloresACHILLE Filipo...

SACRIFICIOHistoria di Jephte a 6 voci e organo, Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Luigi Rossi (v. 1597-1653) Leonardo García Alarcón, Harpsichord, organ &...

In all probability, the St John’s Passion by Alessandro Scarlatti is the very first piece of this genre, written in Italy. This Passion dates from the last years of the XVIIth century, when Scarlatti was...