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

Gianluca Capuano conducts Il Canto di Orfeo and Les Musiciens du Prince

Par Laura Servidei, 08 juin 2025

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“three male voices trading embellishments like bel canto prima donnas”

Critique faite à Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg: Großer Saal, Salzburg, le 7 juin 2025

Mantovani, Venezianischer Morgen

Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine « Vêpres de la Vierge » (1610)

Gianluca Capuano, Direction

Il Canto di Orfeo

Jacopo Facchini, Chef de chœur

Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco

Venise et Vienne au Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo

Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 14th March

Deux concerts radicalement différents se succédaient en 24h au festival monégasque : d'abord les Vêpres de Monteverdi à la Cathédrale, puis la Seconde école de Vienne en quatuor au One Monte-Carlo.

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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.

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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.

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Mozarts Titus als spannendes Politdrama der Gegenwart in Salzburg

Christoph Wurzel, 17th May

Eine neue Sicht auf Mozarts Krönungsoper von 1791: Schlüssig inszeniert, herausragend gesungen und gespielt wird La clemenza di Tito zu einem packenden Drama über die Ränkespiele politischer Macht von heute.

*****

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.

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Laura Servidei

Mathematician, science nerd, translator of popular science books, obsessed opera fan since the teen years. Day job: business analyst in a software house developing systems for the financial industry. Amateur choral singer. Main musical interests: baroque music and Italian opera. Originally from Italy, currently based in Sweden. I make a mean eggplant parmesan.