Cavalli's Erismena illuminates the Jeu de Paume

By Mark Pullinger, 08 July 2017

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“Leonardo Garcia Alarcón drew voluptuous playing from the 11-strong Orchestre Cappella Mediterranea”

Reviewed at Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence on 7 July 2017

Cavalli, Erismena

Leonardo García-Alarcón, Conductor

Jean Bellorini, Director, Lighting Designer

Véronique Chazal, Set Designer

Macha Makeïeff, Costume Designer

Alexander Miminoshvili, Erimante

Francesca Aspromonte, Erismena

Susanna Hurrell, Aldimira

Stuart Jackson, Alcesta

Carlo Vistoli, Idraspe

Jakub Józef Orliński, Orimeno

Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore, Agrippo

Jonathan Abernethy, Diarte

Tai Oney, Clerio

Lea Desandre, Flerida

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Tangled plot, sensuous score: Cavalli's Erismena illuminates the Jeu de Paume