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GenevaLes Indes galantes - De la voix des âmes

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage
Rameau: Les Indes galantes
Thibaut Lenaerts; Bintou Dembélé; Structure Rualité; Charlotte Coffinet; Benjamin Nesme; Chœur de chambre de Namur; Noémie N'Diaye

GenevaSeasons

© Giulia Charbit
Purcell, Handel, The Beatles, ABBA
Quito Gato; Fabrice Murgia; Giacinto Caponio; Maxime Glaude; Emilie Brassier

GenevaArcadelt

© DR
Arcadelt
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Benedetta Zanotto; Sofie Garcia; William Shelton; Valerio Contaldo

AmsterdamBach's Christmas Oratorio with the Netherlands Chamber Choir and Cappella Mediterranea

© Philippe Vogelenzang
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Nederlands Kamerkoor; Cappella Mediterranea; Sophie Junker; Christopher Lowrey

The HagueWeihnachtsoratorium

© Jean-Baptiste Millot
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Nederlands Kamerkoor; Cappella Mediterranea; Sophie Junker; Christopher Lowrey

GenevaCarmina Latina

© François de Maleissiye
de Bocanegra, Victoria, Fernández, de Torrejón y Velasco, Valls, de Araujo, Correa de Arauxo, Romero, el Vell, de Salazar
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Mariana Flores; Leandro Marziotte; Valerio Contaldo; Matteo Bellotto
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Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris

Ana Vieira Leite (Iole) © Opéra national de Paris | Bernd Uhlig
Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.
****1
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Castor et Pollux in Geneva: among the stars, with shadows

Castor et Pollux © Magali Dougados
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
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Les Indes galantes at the Teatro alla Scala: Love and Thunder

Les Indes Galantes © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

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
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Masked marvels and Venetian mischief: Cavalli at Bayreuth Baroque

Max Emanuel Cenčić (Pompeo) and Valer Sabadus (Scipione Servilio) © Clemens Manser Photography
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.
*****
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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents Idomeneo as a confused ballet in Geneva

Lea Desandre (Idamante) © Grand Théâtre de Genève | Magali Dougados
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
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Pure entertainment from early opera: La finta pazza

Extraordinary singing and acting from Mariana Flores stands out in a joyous concert performance of one of the first operas ever written.
****1
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ParisLes Indes galantes

Les Indes galantes at Opéra Bastille, with the dance company Rualité © Little Shao / Opéra national de Paris
Rameau: Les Indes galantes
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Clément Cogitore; Opéra national de Paris; Alban Ho Van; Tim Van Steenbergen; Sylvain Verdet; Cappella Mediterranea

ParisEliogabalo

© Agathe Poupeney | OnP
Cavalli: Eliogabalo
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Thomas Jolly; Opéra national de Paris; Thibaut Fack; Gareth Pugh; Antoine Travert; Cappella Mediterranea

Aix-en-ProvenceDie ZauberflöteNew production

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Clément Cogitore; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; Alban Ho Van; Wojciech Dziedzic; Sylvain Verdet; Cappella Mediterranea
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Impertinence! Making Baroque music the Latin American way

Pablo Agudo López © Giulia Charbit
In the midst of a devastating year for the country, young Venezuelan violinist Pablo Agudo López talks about finding crucial links between European Baroque music and the traditional music of Latin America.

Dinosaurs of the Baroque: discovering Les Dinos et l’Arche

Les Dinos et l’Arche in rehearsal © Charlotte Dekaise
Thomas Leininger’s Baroque-inspired children’s opera at Geneva’s La Cité Bleue is a unique stylistic departure, which asks the essential question: what happened to the dinosaurs left off Noah’s Ark?

Sustained efforts: Ambronay’s support for young ensembles

Ambronay Festival 2024 © Bertrand Pichène
Ambronay’s support for young ensembles in Early Music continues with Sustainable EEEMERGING, a new scheme to help groups get on a sure professional footing – and decarbonise too.