Francesco Cavalli : Pompeo Magno @ Bayreuth Baroque 2025

Overview

Francesco Cavalli's incandescent opera, where tragedy rubs shoulders with comedy, and burlesque alternates with deep emotion. Max Emanuel Cenčić directs a lively production, drawing on the codes of commedia dell'arte. This game of love and chance combines passion, betrayal, and power struggles. The countertenor takes on the title role, while Leonardo García Alarcón conducts the Cappella Mediterranea.

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Cast

Cappella Mediterranea

Marcel Beekman

Kacper Szelążek

Dominique Visse

Jorge Navarro Colorado

Valer Barna-Sabadus

Nicholas Scott

Victor Sicard

Sophie Junker

Nicolò Balducci