La sensualité à l’état pur : Lamenti e Sospiri à La Cité Bleue

Lamenti & Sospiri à La Cité Bleue

Leonardo García-Alarcón

Gwendoline Blondeel

By Romain Daroles, 07 February 2025

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“on est marqué par l’incroyable écoute qui s’installe entre les musiciens”

Reviewed at La Cité Bleue, Geneva on 5 February 2025

Programme to include:

Works by d'India

Mariana Flores, Soprano

Gwendoline Blondeel, Soprano

Quito Gato, Theorbo

Giangiacomo Pinardi, Lute

Marina Bonetti, Harp

Margaux Blanchard, Viola da Gamba

Leonardo García-Alarcón, Conductor, Organ, Harpsichord

Castor et Pollux in Geneva: among the stars, with shadows

Laura Servidei, 28th March

Rameau’s Castor et Pollux returns to the stage in a new production that brings together Baroque repertoire and contemporary theatrical aesthetics, conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón and performed by Cappella Mediterranea with an international cast.

***11

Les Indes galantes at the Teatro alla Scala: Love and Thunder

Laura Servidei, 16th November

Leonardo Garcia-Alarcón leads a crisp, charismatic account of Rameau's Les Indes galantes, where a superb cast shines and the Cappella Mediterranea thoroughly convinces.

****1

Masked marvels and Venetian mischief: Cavalli at Bayreuth Baroque

Mengguang Huang, 14th September

In the intimate splendour of the Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth Baroque revives Cavalli’s Pompeo Magno with a riot of colors, eight masked countertenors and a Tiepolo-like air of playful chaos.

*****

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents Idomeneo as a confused ballet in Geneva

Laura Servidei, 2nd March

The Grand Théâtre de Genève presents a new production of Mozart’s opera seria where the focus is all on dancing and rope twirling. Nevertheless, a good cast, led by Federica Lombardi as Elettra, manages to shine through.

**111

Pure entertainment from early opera: La finta pazza

David Karlin, 7th May

Extraordinary singing and acting from Mariana Flores stands out in a joyous concert performance of one of the first operas ever written.

****1

Les Indes galantes: with Alarcón, Rameau conquers the Bastille

Philippe Ramin, 28th September

The new production of Les Indes galantes at Opéra Bastille is exceptional, from the vocal cast to the choreography by Bintou Dembélé. But the stand-out performance of the evening comes from conductor Leonardo Garcia Alarcón.

*****

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Romain Daroles

Romain Daroles est né entre Gascogne et Armagnac, terre qui lui a transmis le goût des lettres, de la musique et de la bonne chère. Parallèlement à des études littéraires qui se solderont avec l’obtention d’un Master en Littératures Françaises à la Sorbonne, il approfondit sa formation théâtrale au Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique du 6e arrondissement de Paris, ainsi que sa passion pour l’opéra. Titulaire en 2016 d'un Bachelor Théâtre décerné par la Manufacture de Lausanne, il est comédien/metteur en scène et a joué sous la direction de François Gremaud, Marie Fourquet, Alain Borek ou Mathias Brossard.

Lamenti e Sospiri : 1h10 de sensualité à l’état pur avec Leonardo García-Alarcón à La Cité Bleue