The transition to conducting, among singers from the Baroque, is definitely a contagious virus.
After René Jacobs, Nathalie Stutzmann, Paul Agnew, Damien Guillon, Raphaël Pichon and Philippe Jaroussky, it was tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro's turn to succumb to temptation in 2018, with the creation of his own ensemble: I Gemelli.
After a remarkable first album of fervor devoted to the music of a Milanese nun of the seventeenth century almost unknown to the general public, the conductor-vocalist transforms the essay by tackling a top of the repertoire this time: the founder
Orfeo
de Monteverdi .
naive
From the opening toccata, we are amazed by the liveliness of the whole.
These coppers with telluric colors.
These ornaments of a millimeter regularity, almost architectural.
This pulse of life that always goes forward.
Without hinting at the drama that is brewing.
Because it is indeed theater that will be discussed during the next hour and a half.
Not the theater of
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