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Aix-en-ProvenceSonya Yoncheva - Leonardo García-Alarcón - Cappella Mediterranea

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Leonardo García-Alarcón; Sonya Yoncheva; Cappella Mediterranea

Aix-en-ProvenceDie ZauberflöteNew production

La Flûte enchantée mise en scène par Clément Cogitore à Aix © Jean-Louis Fernandez
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

GenevaRoma

La Cité Bleue
Rossi, Scarlatti, Allegri, Giorgi
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Mariana Flores; Maria Chiara Ardolino; William Shelton; Valerio Contaldo

GenevaLes Indes galantes - De la voix des âmes

La Cité Bleue
Rameau: Les Indes galantes
Thibaut Lenaerts; Bintou Dembélé; Structure Rualité; Charlotte Coffinet; Benjamin Nesme; Ana Quintans; Amandine Sanchez

GenevaSeasons

La Cité Bleue
Purcell, Handel, The Beatles, ABBA
Quito Gato; Fabrice Murgia; Giacinto Caponio; Maxime Glaude; Emilie Brassier

GenevaArcadelt

La Cité Bleue
Arcadelt
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Benedetta Zanotto; Sofie Garcia; William Shelton; Valerio Contaldo
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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
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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.

Catharsis and shelter: inside Fabrice Murgia’s Seasons

Mariana Flores in Seasons © Fabrice Murgia
Director Fabrice Murgia talks about Seasons, a new production for La Cité Bleue using music and film, creating portraits of imaginary residents of La Cité universitaire in Geneva.