{"id":8598,"date":"2023-11-12T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.cappella.synapsys-digital.com\/production\/handel-acis-galatea\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:23:27","slug":"handel-acis-galatea","status":"publish","type":"post-concert","link":"https:\/\/dev.cappella.synapsys-digital.com\/en\/production\/handel-acis-galatea\/","title":{"rendered":"Haendel, Acis and Galatea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Conceived as a miniature opera to be performed for private entertainment, Handel’s Acis and Galatea<\/em> was adored by the composer\u2019s contemporaries, then reworked and re-orchestrated several times, giving the opera new life. Acis the shepherd and Galatea the nymph fall in love, but Galatea is also being pursued by the cyclops Polyphemus. When the latter finds out about the two lovers, he kills the young Acis in a rage, but Acis is then transformed into a river, becoming eternal thanks to the power of love. <\/h4>\n\n\n\r\n
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On le sait, Leonardo Garc\u00eda-Alarc\u00f3n n\u2019est jamais \u00e0 court d\u2019id\u00e9es, d\u2019enthousiasme et de dynamisme. Jouant sur les couleurs de la Capella Mediterrranea, il donne ainsi aux cordes de ce premier ch\u0153ur une sonorit\u00e9 de vielle \u00e0 roue. Ici il joue sur les silences, l\u00e0, il affute les attaques des violons ou travaille l\u2019opulence des cordes graves. Toujours avec un sens du rebond qui am\u00e8ne une vie fr\u00e9missante et fait parfois swinguer Haendel. Au c\u0153ur de ces m\u00e9lodies simples, partout se r\u00e9v\u00e8le une fr\u00e9missante diversit\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00e9criture, dans les couleurs, dans les rythmes et les accents.<\/p>\r\n

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La r\u00e9union pour cet Acis et Galat\u00e9e […] de vingt-cinq musiciens avait valeur de test pour Leonardo Garc\u00eda-Alarc\u00f3n. […] Un test particuli\u00e8rement concluant tant par l\u2019homog\u00e9n\u00e9it\u00e9 du r\u00e9sultat, que la souplesse et l\u2019intelligence avec laquelle la formation ainsi constitu\u00e9e pr\u00eate ses couleurs \u00e0 Alarc\u00f3n, peintre inspir\u00e9 des sentiments humains.<\/p>\r\n

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A-t-on encore besoin de souligner \u00e0 quel point la direction de Leonardo Garc\u00eda-Alarc\u00f3n est une r\u00e9ussite de bout en bout ? L\u2019intelligence et l\u2019\u00e9motion avec lesquelles il ne cesse de r\u00e9v\u00e9ler chaque note de la partition se traduisent en un rendu qui ne souffre d\u2019aucun d\u00e9faut, qui porte et se laisse porter.<\/p>\r\n

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Handel through one of his greatest works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When he arrived in Rome in 1707, the young Handel dazzled the elites of the holy city with his exceptional talent. He became the \u201cfashionable\u201d composer, and his fame grew so quickly that he was soon called to Naples, where he premiered his pastoral opera Aci, Galatea e Polifemo<\/em> in July 1708 at the Court Theater in the Ducal Palace of Piedimonte Matese for a lavish wedding.Paragraph <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small opera originally intended for private performances, Acis and Galatea<\/em> was Handel’s most frequently performed work during his lifetime. This masterpiece\u2014a miniature drama, pastoral, or masque<\/em>, it is difficult to define\u2014underwent numerous revisions. It offers a brilliant synthesis of English and Italian styles, with da capo arias and significant contributions from the chorus. The plot comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses<\/em>, which had already inspired Lully to write an opera (1686), and boldly blends comedy and tragedy. He gradually erases the transparent lightness of the Arcadian landscapes, where the love between the shepherd Acis and the nymph Galatea blossoms, in favor of a darker atmosphere: the young Acis is savagely killed by the cyclops Polyphemus, jealous of his love for Galatea. The mourning nymph, however, surrenders to peace and elevates her lost lover to the rank of god in the form of a spring that flows through the grove. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo Garc\u00eda-Alarc\u00f3n leads Cappella Mediterranea from the organ in this music that Mozart himself admired so much that he made a German version of it…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Acis und Galatea <\/em>HWV 49<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A semi-opera in two acts with libretto by John Gay based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses<\/em>, premiered in London in 1731.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlotte Bowden<\/strong><\/strong>, soprano – Galatea<\/em>Hugo Hymas<\/strong> (Ambronay) \/ Guy Cutting<\/strong> (Namur & Chantilly), tenor – Acis <\/em>Staffan Liljas<\/strong>, bass – Polyphemus<\/em>Valerio Contaldo<\/strong>, tenor – Damon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

in Ambronay :Maud Bessard Morandas<\/strong>, soprano<\/em>Leandro Marziotte<\/strong>, countre-tenor<\/em>Rapha\u00ebl Hardmeyer<\/strong>, bass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cappella Mediterranea<\/strong>Ch\u0153ur de Chambre de Namur<\/strong> (Namur & Chantilly)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo Garc\u00eda-Alarc\u00f3n<\/strong>, orguan and musical direction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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