Antonio Draghi & Leonardo García Alarcón: El Prometeo Capella Mediterranea, Chœur de chambre de Namur & Leonardo García Alarcón

• Antonio Draghi (1634 - 1700): El Prometeo:
• 1Overture00:28
• Act I:
• 2Act I Scenes 1 & 2: Soberana Hermosura06:36
• 3Act I Scene 3: Bueno Has Quedado Corazon Amante01:33
• 4Act I Scene 3: Amante de Prometeo07:05
• 5Act I Scene 4: À del Falado Reyno05:02
• 6Act I Scene 5: Tetis Felice, y Hermosa02:35
• 7Act I Scene 6: Si en Medio de Se Divìna04:41
• 8Act I Scene 7: En Fin Con Doña Estatua Embelesádo01:18
• 9Act I Scene 8: Que Siempre Llegue01:41
• 10Act I Scene 9: Prometeo05:34
• 11Act I Scene 10: Tus Bodas, Gran Tonante05:36
• 12Act I Scene 11: Ya Tetis, Gran Nerèo05:20
• Act II:
• 13Act II Scene 1: Que Firme, Que Esento03:22
• 14Act II Scene 2: Que Roban, Que Llevan01:54
• 15Act II Scene 3: Padre01:24
• 16Act II Scene 4: Tu Mercurio Vuela02:43
• 17Act II Scene 5: Quando Fin Darà el Deséo02:35
• 18Act II Scene 6: Tu Padre, Tetis, Señores02:06
• 19Act II Scene 7: A Fama04:43
• 20Act II Scene 8: O Fuego Soberàno04:38
• 21Act II Scene 9: Quien de los Cielos Profano00:44
• 22Act II Scene 10: En Busca de Mi Amante03:03
• 23Act II Scene 11: A Adorar las Cenizas de Mi Amada02:30
• 24Act II Scene 12: Ay de la Vida02:30
• Leonardo García Alarcón (b. 1976): Act III:
• 25Act III Scene 1: No Ha de Rendirte Parias08:20
• 26Act III Scene 2: Dioses, Pues no Hay Remedio04:12
• 27Act III Scene 3: Pues Fuiste en Mi Mal04:17
• 28Act III Scene 4: Hasta Quando, Amorosos Desaciertos04:38
• 29Act III Scene 5: Sentida04:27
• 30Act III Scene 6: Si la Vista Real, al Deliquente02:18
• 31Act III Scene 7: A Imperio Fulminante01:39
• 32Act III Scene 8: Satyro Fiel, Consuelete Mi Pena03:40
• 33Act III Scene 9: Araña Se Mira Aragne05:04
• 34Act III Scene 10: Pues Toco, Pues Miro01:19
• 35Act III Scene 11: O Suma Deidad02:18
• 36Act III Scene 11: Y a Tus Plantas02:48
• 37Act III Scene 11: Levantad01:51
• Total Runtime02:06:32

Info for Antonio Draghi & Leonardo García Alarcón: El Prometeo

The original score of El Prometeo (Prometheus) is held in the Leopoldine Library in Vienna. It dates from 1669 and was written by Antonio Draghi, a composer who was also a singer, notably in the operas of Cavalli. For the first time in history, an Italian set a text in Spanish. The last act of El Prometeo has disappeared. But since the libretto of this act has survived, Leonardo García Alarcón decided to rewrite all the music for it. ‘I immersed myself in Draghi’s music in order to understand his style, his favourite intervals, the type of melody he composed and the type of basso continuo he was fond of, so as to try to produce a score that is worthy of him. So I hope that this third act will measure up to his music, his intentions and his creativity!’ says the Argentinian conductor. Directing a brilliant cast (Fabio Trümpy, Mariana Flores, Giuseppina Bridelli, Scott Conner, Borja Quisa, Zachary Wilder, Ana Quintans), Leonardo García Alarcón brings this Baroque opera to life in Spanish, an opportunity to show his love for his mother tongue, ‘a supremely musical language’!

Fabio Trümpy, tenor (PROMETEO)
Scott Conner, bass (PELEO)
Mariana Flores, soprano (TETIS)
Giuseppina Bridelli, mezzo-soprano (NISSEA)
Borja Quiza, baritone (SATYRO)
Zachary Wilder, tenor (MERCURIO)
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Dirigent

Leonardo García Alarcón
After studying piano in Argentina, Leonardo García Alarcón moved to Europe in 1997 and joined the Geneva Conservatory in the class of harpsichordist Christiane Jaccottet. Leonardo García Alarcón emerged in a few years as the leading conductor of the baroque world. Argentinian by origin and holder of both Swiss and Argentinian nationality, he is coveted by the greatest musical and lyrical institutions, from the Paris Opera to the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and the Grand Theatre in Geneva, the city where he made his first appearance. It was under the guidance of Gabriel Garrido that he embarked on the baroque adventure, while also receiving the support of John Eliot Gardiner and Philippe Herreweghe.

Under the patronage of these established masters, he created about ten years ago his ensemble Cappella Mediterranea, following by the foundation of the Millennium Orchestra, which he also founded to accompany the Namur Chamber Choir, of which he took over the conductorship in 2010, one of the best baroque choirs in existence. He is divided between Geneva, France (notably as an assiduous pillar of the Ambronay Festival and, since this year, artist in residence at the Opéra de Dijon), Belgium, but also with sporadic visits to his native South America. A form of geographical eclecticism, to which his repertoire corresponds. With a taste and a vocation to bring back to life unknown works from Cavalli, Sacrati, Draghi, Falvetti…

This is how we owe the reinstatement of Cavalli's operas to this barely forty-three-year-old conductor: Eliogabalo, to open the Paris Opera season in 2016, Il Giasone in Geneva and Erismena at the 2017 Festival of Aix-en-Provence, El Prometeo by Antonio Draghi in 2018 at the Opéra de Dijon or the recent rediscovery (also at the Opéra de Dijon) of Francesco Sacrati's La finta pazza, the very first opera imported to Paris.

As a conductor or harpsichordist, he is invited by festivals and concert halls all over the world to conduct different orchestra (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Freiburger Barokorchester, Gulbenkian Orchestra…)

In November 2018, he conducted Monteverdi's Orfeo in the staging of Sasha Waltz at the Berlin Staatsoper Berlin. In September 2019, triumphed with Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes at the Opéra Bastille on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Music. He will conduct again Les Indes galantes in another staging at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in December 2019. He also starts a residence at the auditorium of Radio France for a series of concerts. At the beginning of 2020, he will conduct a new production of Handel’s Alcina together with the Cappella Mediterranea in Nancy and Dijon, before returning next summer to the Aix en Provence festival for a new production of L'incoronazione di Poppea.

His discography has been unanimously acclaimed by critics. In September 2016, I 7 Peccati Capitali was released by Alpha Classic: an imaginary programme based on Monteverdi's tunes, hailed by the press and nominated in the "best recording" category at the “Victoires de la Musique” 2017. In 2018, he recorded sacred works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, an album around Joan Manuel Serrat and a set of works by Jacques Arcadelt, which received great critical acclaim. The opera production of Il Giasone from Geneva was released on DVD by Alpha Classics in February 2019. A recording of Handel’s Saul with the Millenium Orchestra and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur will soon be released.

In June 2019, Leonardo García Alarcón was made « Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et Lettres” by the French government.

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