Cappella Mediterranea: Leonardo García Alarcón

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 trying to save his wife Eurydice from the Underworld, Orfeo was a milestone in the history of music, marking the musical end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque period, and placing, in The Birth of the Individual in Art, "the individual at the center of the new musical world". Leonardo García Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea brilliantly interpret this magnificent love song, this poetic and theatrical fable about the power of music.

Valerio Contaldo, Orfeo
Mariana Flores Musica, Euridice
Guiseppina Bridelli (Strasbourg), La Messagiera
Anna Reihnold, Proserpina, Speranza
Alejandro Meerapfel, Plutone
Salvo Vitale (Aix-en-Provence) / Andreas Wolf (Strasbourg), Caronte
Matteo Bellotto, Pastore
Nicholas Scott, Pastore, Spirito, Eco
Leandro Marziotte, Pastore
Alessandro Giangrande, Pastore, Apollo
Julie Roset (Aix-en-Provence), Ninfa