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The multitude of incomplete manuscripts of so many baroque operas and oratorios offers a very tempting playground for today's performers and musicologists. However, it is quite rare for a 21st century artist to compose an entire act from scratch. This was what has happened with El Prometeo by Italian composer Antonio Draghi, who was active at the Habsburg court in Vienna.
Composed in 1669, it is one of the few operas from that time written in Castilian, which gives this discovery a vital historical importance. Draghi is a direct heir to Monteverdi and Cavalli, whose works he sang in his youth and whose style he carried forward. As was the style in his day, his music is made up of a deft mixture of comic scenes. This was a tradition that would stretch all the way down to Mozart, via the Jommelli operas that the young composer so admired.
Convinced that what he had discovered was the complete manuscript, Leonardo García Alarcón had found himself trapped when he realised his mistake just as the work was due to open at the Dijon Opera. So he was obliged to either cancel the production, or to assemble other works into a "pasticcio" of the style of the 18th century. The conductor wasn't paralysed by the fear of a blank page: he put himself into Draghi's shoes to compose a whole third act: the densest, most dramatic part of the artwork, the original of which was irretrievably lost.
Going beyond mere plagiarism, García Alarcón had some fun, paying tribute to Austrian opera, borrowing from Draghi of course, but also from Cesti, Caldara, and all the way up to Mozart. The result of this tour de force is a perfect illusion: his assimilation of different styles allows him to create music that's inspired by and in perfect harmony with the rest of the score. The Namur Chamber Choir, the many soloists and the bewitching colours of the Cappella Mediterranea all contribute greatly to a production whose success you can feel on this new album. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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El Prometeo (Antonio Draghi)
Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Mariana Flores, Soprano (Tetis) - Scott Conner, Bass (Peleo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano (Nisea) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Victor Torrès, Baritone (Nereo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Victor Torrès, Baritone (Nereo) - Mariana Flores, Soprano (Tetis) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Mariana Flores, Soprano (Tetis) - Scott Conner, Bass (Peleo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano (Nisea) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Ana Quintans, Soprano (Minerva) - Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-Soprano (Pandora) - Alejandro Meerapfel, Baritone (Jupiter) - Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri, Baritone (Hercules) - Lucía Martín Cartón, Soprano (Aragne) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Mariana Flores, Soprano (Tetis) - Alejandro Meerapfel, Baritone (Jupiter) - Scott Conner, Bass (Peleo) - Victor Torrès, Baritone (Nereo) - Lucía Martín Cartón, Soprano (Aragne) - Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri, Baritone (Hercules) - Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-Soprano (Pandora) - Chœur de Chambre de Namur (Nereydas, Tritones) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-Soprano (Pandora) - Alejandro Meerapfel, Baritone (Jupiter) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri, Baritone (Hercules) - Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Alejandro Meerapfel, Baritone (Jupiter) - Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-Soprano (Pandora) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Alejandro Meerapfel, Baritone (Jupiter) - Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri, Baritone (Hercules) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Scott Conner, Bass (Peleo) - Mariana Flores, Soprano (Tetis) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Lucía Martín Cartón, Soprano (Aragne) - Mariana Flores, Soprano (Tetis) - Scott Conner, Bass (Peleo) - Victor Torrès, Baritone (Nereo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
DISC 2
Ana Quintans, Soprano (Minerva) - Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Chœur de Chambre de Namur - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Mariana Flores, Soprano (Estatua) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano (Nisea) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-Soprano (Pandora) - Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Choeur de Chambre de Namur - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Antonio Draghi, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
El Prometeo (Act III composed by Leonardo García Alarcón) (Leonardo García Alarcón)
Ana Quintans, Soprano (Minerva) - Lucía Martín Cartón, Soprano (Aragne) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Ana Quintans, Soprano (Minerva) - Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano (Nisea) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Alejandro Meerapfel, Baritone (Jupiter) - Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-Soprano (Pandora) - Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri, Baritone (Hercules) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri, Baritone (Hercules) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano (Nisea) - Borja Quiza, Baritone (Satyro) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Alejandro Meerapfel, Baritone (Jupiter) - Mariana Flores, Soprano (Tetis) - Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-Soprano (Pandora) - Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Scott Conner, Bass (Peleo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Victor Torrès, Baritone (Nereo) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Victor Torrès, Baritone (Nereo) - Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Mariana Flores, Soprano (Tetis) - Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-Soprano (Pandora) - Zachary Wilder, Tenor (Mercurio) - Scott Conner, Bass (Peleo) - Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri, Baritone (Hercules) - Lucía Martín Cartón, Soprano (Aragne) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Ana Quintans, Soprano (Minerva) - Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano (Nisea) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Fabio Trümpy, Tenor (Prometeo) - Alejandro Meerapfel, Baritone (Jupiter) - Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano (Nisea) - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón, Conductor - Leonardo García Alarcón, Composer
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
Album review
The multitude of incomplete manuscripts of so many baroque operas and oratorios offers a very tempting playground for today's performers and musicologists. However, it is quite rare for a 21st century artist to compose an entire act from scratch. This was what has happened with El Prometeo by Italian composer Antonio Draghi, who was active at the Habsburg court in Vienna.
Composed in 1669, it is one of the few operas from that time written in Castilian, which gives this discovery a vital historical importance. Draghi is a direct heir to Monteverdi and Cavalli, whose works he sang in his youth and whose style he carried forward. As was the style in his day, his music is made up of a deft mixture of comic scenes. This was a tradition that would stretch all the way down to Mozart, via the Jommelli operas that the young composer so admired.
Convinced that what he had discovered was the complete manuscript, Leonardo García Alarcón had found himself trapped when he realised his mistake just as the work was due to open at the Dijon Opera. So he was obliged to either cancel the production, or to assemble other works into a "pasticcio" of the style of the 18th century. The conductor wasn't paralysed by the fear of a blank page: he put himself into Draghi's shoes to compose a whole third act: the densest, most dramatic part of the artwork, the original of which was irretrievably lost.
Going beyond mere plagiarism, García Alarcón had some fun, paying tribute to Austrian opera, borrowing from Draghi of course, but also from Cesti, Caldara, and all the way up to Mozart. The result of this tour de force is a perfect illusion: his assimilation of different styles allows him to create music that's inspired by and in perfect harmony with the rest of the score. The Namur Chamber Choir, the many soloists and the bewitching colours of the Cappella Mediterranea all contribute greatly to a production whose success you can feel on this new album. © François Hudry/Qobuz
Details of original recording : Recorded in June 2018 at Auditorium de l’Opéra de Dijon (France)
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 37 track(s)
- Total length: 02:08:08
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Leonardo García Alarcón Capella Mediterranea Choeur de Chambre de Namur
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Area: Italie
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Baroque Music
2019 Outhere Music France 2020 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France & Cappella Mediterranea
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