Leonardo García-Alarcón conducts Francesco Cavalli — With Mariana Flores
With Cappella Mediterranea at Bayreuth Baroque Festival 2025
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Cast
Mariana Flores — Soprano
Capella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón — Conductor, music director, Harpsichord
Program notes
This concert—dedicated to the music of Francesco Cavalli at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2025—forms part of conductor Leonardo García-Alarcón’s ongoing effort to breathe new life into seventeenth-century Venetian musical theater. Featuring the Cappella Mediterranea ensemble and soprano Mariana Flores—a renowned interpreter of the Baroque repertoire and a regular collaborator of the conductor—the evening highlights Cavalli’s expressive artistry through a selection of arias and dramatic pieces, revealing the emotional richness and modernity of his compositional style…
