A few words about...
The orchestra Les Musiciens du Prince –Monaco was founded in the spring of 2016 at the Monte Carlo Opera, upon the initiative of Cecilia Bartoli and in collaboration with Jean-Louis Grinda, then Director of the Opera. The project received the immediate support of HSH Prince Albert II and HRH Princess of Hanover. Cecilia Bartoli, performer and artistic director, has brought together the world’s finest musicians, playing on period instruments, to create an orchestra inspired by the 17th and 18th century music traditions in vogue at princely, royal and imperial courts throughout Europe. Her artistic vision is centred on the grand masters of the Baroque period, such as Haendel, and Vivaldi, as well as on the Mozart and Rossini repertoire. Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco and Cecilia Bartoli have performed in Europe’s major venues, unanimously acclaimed by audiences and the international press. They regularly perform in Salzburg (Whitsun Festival and Summer Festival). Gianluca Capuano has been appointed Principal Conductor in March 2019. Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco are in residence at the Monte Carlo Opera.
Since 2019, Gianluca Capuano has been musical director of Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco. In Milan, his hometown, he graduated in organ, composition and conducting at the Conservatory, studied early music performance at the Scuola Civica and graduated with honours in theoretical philosophy at the Università Statale. He dedicates himself to research in the field of musical aesthetics. He is artistic director of the festival “Musica negli horti” in Val d’Orcia.
He has been active as conductor, organist and continuist in Europe, the United States, Russia and Japan. In 2006 he founded “Il Canto di Orfeo”, an ensemble dedicated to European Baroque masterpieces, which he conducted for, among others, the Milano Arte Musica Festival (2017) and La morte d’Abel at the Salzburg Festival.
In 2016, he conducted Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at the Edinburgh Festival, in Paris and Baden Baden. Since then, many collaborations with Cecilia Bartoli and Les Musiciens du Prince: La Cenerentola in Monte Carlo, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Versailles, Luxembourg; Il turco in Italia in Monte Carlo; Ariodante, La donna del lago, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Alcina and a series of concerts at the Salzburg Festival; La clemenza di Tito in Lucerne; La Cenerentola, Il turco in Italia and a Gala Concert in Vienna; L’italiana in Algeri in Zurich; a series of concerts in the most important squares in Europe.
Other engagements, are worth mentioning: Catone in Utica, Gli uccellatori, Il matrimonio segreto, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Cologne; Idomeneo and Alcina at the Maggio Musicale in Florence; Pigmalione/Che originali! at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo; Le metamorfosi di Pasquale at La Fenice in Venice; La finta giardiniera in Winterthur, Zurich and Amsterdam; Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine in Cremona; L’elisir d’amore and the Weinachtsoratorium in Hamburg; Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Guillaume Tell at the Chorégies d’Orange; Il matrimonio segreto in Amsterdam; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Palermo; Mozart’s Requiem in Bari; Orlando Paladino, La Cenerentola, Iphigénie en Tauride in Zurich; Il maestro di cappella and Il segreto di Susanna in Genoa; Ariodante and Le nozze di Figaro in Moscow; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Lucerne; Il turco in Italia in Munich; L’elisir d’amore in Vienna.
He also collaborates with I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Philarmonisches Orchester Kiel and Concerto Köln.
ViolIns I
ENRICO CASAZZA*
THIBAULT NOALLY*
NIKITA BUDNETSKIY
FABRIZIO CIPRIANI
ÁGNES KERTÉSZ
MURIEL QUISTAD
ROBERTO RUTKAUSKAS
ANAÏS SOUCAILLE
ELENA TELÒ
ANNA URPINA RIUS
ANDREA VASSALLE
ViolIns II
NICOLAS MAZZOLENI*
LAURA CAVAZZUTI
FRANCESCO COLLETTI
DIEGO MORENO CASTELLI
SVETLANA FOMINA
REYES GALLARDO
GIAN ANDREA GUERRA
MASSIMO PERCIVALDI
LAURA SCIPIONI
AGNÈS STRADNER
VIOLAS
DEIRDRE DOWLING*
PATRICIA GAGNON*
DIEGO MECCA*
ELISA IMBALZANO
EMANUELE MARCANTE
BERNADETTE VERHAGEN
CELLOS
FRANCESCO GALLIGIONI*
ROBIN GEOFFREY MICHAEL*
NICOLA BROVELLI
ANNA CAMPORINI
GUILLAUME FRANCOIS
ANTONIO CARLO PAPETTI
ÉMILIE WALLYN
DOUBLES BASSES
ROBERTO FERNÁNDEZ DE LARRINOA*
CLOTILDE GUYON
DAVIDE NAVA
MARIA VAHERVUO
Viola da gamba
CRISTIANO CONTADIN
RECORDERS
BENNY AGHASSI*
SABRINA FREY
MARCO SCORTICATI
FlUtes
JEAN-MARC GOUJON*
PABLO SOSA DEL ROSARIO*
REBEKKA BRUNNER
OBOES
Pier Luigi FABRETTI*
Guido CAMPANA
Clarinets
FRANCESCO SPENDOLINI*
ROBERTA CRISTINI
BERNHARD ROETHLISBERGER
BassOons
BENNY AGHASSI*
HUGO RODRIGUEZ ARTEAGA*
ELENA BIANCHI*
IVAN CALESTANI
TAKAKO KUNUGI
JEONG-GUK LEE
HORNS
ULRICH HÜBNER*
ERWIN WIERINGA*
DILENO BALDIN
GILBERT CAMÍ FARRÀS
EMMANUEL FRANKENBERG
CLAUDE PADOAN
TRUMPETS
Thibaud ROBINNE*
Sebastian SCHÄRR
Trombones
SETH QUISTAD*
ANDREA CALCAGNO
GUNTER CARLIER
CAS GEVERS
MARCO RODRIGUES
BILLIE THOMAS
DANIEL VESEL
ORGAN AND HARPSICHORD
Davide POZZI*
HARPSICHORD
Gabriele LEVI*
THEORBO
MIGUEL RINCÓN RODRIGUEZ*
MICHAEL DUECKER
ELISA LA MARCA
MICHELE PASOTTI
Harp
MARTA GRAZIOLINO*
TIZIANA TAGLIANI ZANETTI
Percussions
Paolo NOCENTINI*
Sebastiano NIDI
Saverio RUFO
cornets
GEBHARD DAVID*
MARTIN BOLTERAUER
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*solo/leader
Staff
General Manager
Margherita Rizzi Brignoli
Tour Manager
Nicolas Payan
Assistant Tour Manager
GLEB LYAMENKOV
2024
Versailles tour
Giulio Cesare in Egitto – Haendel
Conductor | Gianluca Capuano
cleopatra | Cecilia Bartoli
6 June
Their Master's Voice : a gender duel between John Malkovich and Cecilia Bartoli
conductor | Gianluca Capuano, director | MICHAEL STURMINGER, sets, costumes & videos | Renate martin and ANDREAS donhauser, lighting design | benoit vigan, choirmaster | stefano visconti
Mezzosoprano | Cecilia bartoli, Actor | John Malkovich, Actor | emily cox, Countertenor | Philipp mathmann
choir of the opéra de monte-carlo
8 June
Monteverdi Festival Cremona
conductor | Gianluca Capuano
Mezzosoprano | Cecilia Bartoli
23 june Crémone (Italie)
Barocchissimo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo And Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco at the vienna staatsoper
Giulio Cesare in Egitto – Haendel
conductor | Gianluca Capuano, director | Davide Livermore, sets | GioForma, Costumes | Mariana Fracasso, lighting design | Antonio castro, Videos | D-wok
Giulio cesare | carlo vistoli, cleopatra | cecilia bartoli, tolomeo | max emanuel cencic, cornelia | sara mingardo, sesto | kangmin justin kim, achilla | péter kalman
6, 8 & 9 july
Their Master's Voice : a gender duel between John Malkovich and Cecilia Bartoli
conductor | Gianluca Capuano, director | MICHAEL STURMINGER, sets, costumes & videos | Renate martin and ANDREAS donhauser, lighting design | benoit vigan, choirmaster | stefano visconti
Mezzosoprano | Cecilia bartoli, Actor | John Malkovich, Actor | emily cox, Countertenor | Philipp mathmann
choir of the opéra de monte-carlo
10 july
Farinelli & Friends
conductor | GIANLUCA CAPUANO
soloists| CECILIA BARTOLI, VARDUHI ABRAHAMYAN, JULIE FUCHS, ANN HALLENBERG, SARA MINGARDO, REGULA MÜHLEMANN, ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER, MAX EMANUEL CENCIC, PÉTER KÁLMÁN, KANGMIN JUSTIN KIM, MAXIM MIRONOV, CARLO VISTOLI
11 july
La clemenza di Tito – Mozart
CONDUCTOR | GIANLUCA CAPUANO, DIRECTOR AND LIGHTING DESIGN | ROBERT CARSEN, SETS AND COSTUMES | GIDEON DAVEY, LIGHTING DESIGN| PETER VAN PRAET
TITO | DANIEL BEHLE, VITELLIA | ALEXANDRA MARCELLIER, SERVILIA | MÉLISSA PETIT, SESTO | CECILIA BARTOLI, ANNIO | ANNA TETRUASHVILI, PUBLIO | ILDEBRANDO D’ARCANGELO
1-13 AUGUST Salzburg (Austria) – Summer Festival
Giacomo Carrisimi: Jephte
VOCAL ENSEMBLE IL CANTO DI ORFEO
29 AUGUST Milano (Italy) – Milano Arte Musica Festival
Orfeo ed Euridice – Gluck
CONDUCTOR | GIANLUCA CAPUANO
ORFEO | CECILIA BARTOLI, EURIDICE & AMORE | MÉLISSA PETIT
VOCAL ENSEMBLE IL CANTO DI ORFEO
3 NOVEMBER Luxembourg (Luxembourg) – Philharmonie
5 NOVEMBER Bruxelles (Belgium) – Bozar
6 NOVEMBER Amsterdam (The Netherlands) – Concertgebouw
8 NOVEMBER Hamburg (Germany) – Elbphilharmonie
11 NOVEMBER Essen (Germany) – Philharmonie
22 NOVEMBER Cologne (Germany) – Kölner Philharmonie
24 NOVEMBER Baden-Baden (Germany) – Festspielhaus
26 NOVEMBER Wiesbaden (Germany) – Rheingau Musik Festival / Kurhaus Wiesbaden
28 NOVEMBER Paris (France) – Philharmonie
30 NOVEMBER Zurich (Switzerland) – Tonhalle
2025
Opera gala
CONDUCTOR | Gianluca Capuano
MEZZOSOPRANO | Cecilia Bartoli
12 april Künzelsau (Germany) – Carmen Würth Forum
Whitsun Festival Salzburg
Guest orchestra
june Salzburg (Austria)