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L'Orfeo de Monteverdi par Sir John Eliot Gardiner : la beauté du drame à l'état pur

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“Toutes les tessitures sont audibles, justes, coordonnées, équilibrées, exaltées.”
Reviewed at Château de Versailles: Galerie des Glaces, Versailles on 8 November 2015
Monteverdi, L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor
Francesca Aspromonte, Soprano
Mariana Flores, Soprano
Esther Brazil, Mezzo-soprano
James Hall, Countertenor
Krystian Adam, Tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, Tenor
Andrew Tortise, Tenor
Gareth Treseder, Tenor
Gianluca Buratto, Bass
David Shipley, Bass
Monteverdi Choir
Francesca Boncompagni, Soprano
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