Venise et Vienne au Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo

Gianluca Capuano dirige les Vêpres de la Vierge dans la Cathédrale de Monaco

Le Quatuor Akilone au One Monte-Carlo

By Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 16 March 2025

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“un festival qui porte bien et haut son nom”

Reviewed at Cathédrale Notre-Dame-Immaculée, Monaco on 14 March 2025

Mantovani, Venezianischer Morgen (World premiere)

Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine "Vespers of the Blessed Virgin" (1610)

Gianluca Capuano, Conductor

Jacopo Facchini, Choirmaster / chorus director

Il Canto di Orfeo

Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco

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Reviewed at One Monte-Carlo, Salle des Arts, Monte-Carlo on 15 March 2025

Webern, 6 Bagatelles for string quartet, Op.9

Berg, Lyric Suite

Beethoven, String Quartet no. 13 in B flat major, Op.130

Beethoven, Grosse Fuge - fugue for string quartet in B flat major, Op.133

Quatuor Akilone

Magdalēna Geka, Violin

Élise De-Bendelac, Violin

Perrine Guillemot-Munck, Viola

Lucie Mercat, Cello

A soul-stirring Orfeo ed Euridice as Bartoli commands Cremona’s stage

Laura Servidei, 11th June

Cecilia Bartoli and Gianluca Capuano lead a superb performance of Orfeo ed Euridice, in semi-staged form, as a prologue to the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona.

*****

Hotel Metamorphosis: Vivaldi reborn through Ovid's lens in Salzburg

Laura Servidei, 8th June

A pasticcio of superb musicianship is the main event at the Venice-themed Whitsun Festival.

****1

Monteverdi’s Vespers in Salzburg: mysticism, might and musical mastery

Laura Servidei, 7th June

Gianluca Capuano leads Les Musiciens du Prince and Il Canto d’Orfeo in a spectacular rendition of Monteverdi’s masterpiece at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.

****1

Emotional Mozart at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Laura Servidei, 19th May

Gianluca Capuano leads a great ensemble in a thoughtful, emotional reading of Mozart’s Mass in C minor.

****1

Monteverdi’s Orfeo as an enchanting marionette show in Salzburg

Laura Servidei, 28th May

Gianluca Capuano leads Les Musiciens du Prince, Il Canto di Orfeo and a superb cast of Italian early music specialists in a wonderful rendition of Monteverdi’s masterpiece.

****1

A Haydn rarity: L’anima del filosofo at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Laura Servidei, 27th May

The festival presents an illuminist take on the myth of Orpheus in a convincing concert performance of a rarely performed opera by Haydn.

****1

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Jean-Pierre Rousseau

Jean-Pierre Rousseau a été successivement producteur responsable des émissions musicales à la Radio Suisse Romande (à ce titre co-fondateur de l'émission de critique de disques "Disques en Lice" en 1987), directeur de France Musique, directeur général de l'Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, directeur de la musique de Radio France puis directeur du Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier jusqu'en juillet 2022. Il a régulièrement participé aux émissions de critique de la RTBF, de France Musique, et collaboré à Forumopera. Il tient un blog qui lui permet d'exprimer sa passion pour les musiciens d'aujourd'hui et d'hier.