Biography
Europa Galante has performed in many of the world's major
concert halls and theatres including
La Scala in Milan, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Suntory Hall in
Tokyo, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Royal Albert Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna,
Lincoln Center in New York and the Sydney Opera House. The ensemble has toured
throughout Australia, Japan, Canada, Israel, USA and South America.
Europa Galante's repertoire includes the works of Handel
(Agrippina) and Vivaldi (Bazajet),
and many instrumental works right up to the eighteenth Century.
They have shown a great
interest in the works of A.Scarlatti’such
as the oratorios (Maddalena, La Santissima Trinità), Seneratas (Clori, Dorino e
Amore) and operas such as Massimo Puppieno, Il Trionfo dell'Onore, La
Principessa Fedele and Carlo Re d'Allemagna.
Europa Galante often collaborates with the Fondazione Santa
Cecilia in Rome to rediscover and
restore eighteenth-century Italian operas such as Antonio Caldara's La Passione
di Gesù Cristo, L. Leo's Sant'Elena al Calvario, or Gesu sotto il peso Della
Croce of F.di Mayo.
The ensemble has a varying structure and often performs
chamber music such as the string sonatas of Italian composers of the
seventeenth century.
In 1998, after years of collaboration with the French record
company Opus 111, Europa Galante signed a contract with Virgin Classics to
record Vivaldi's Four Seasons and 2 volumes of Luigi Boccherini's string
quintets as well as arias from cantatas by J.S. Bach with Ian Bostridge.
The ensemble has been nominated twice for Grammy Awards – in
2004 for its disc of Vivaldi's Concerti con molti strumenti and in 2006 for its
recording of Vivaldi’s Bajazet. The most recent release, Vivaldi arias with
Vivica Genaux, has been awarded at the Echo Classics.
Their next recording projects include a Vivaldi compilation
"La Stravaganza ", and Vivaldi’s Ercole sul Termodonte, with an
amazing cast (Genaux, di Donato, Damrau, Lehtipuu and Basso).
This season, Europa Galante has a long tour in Sweden and
will perform in Europe extensively (Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Poland)
with an instrumental repertoire, which includes this year Bach’s Orchestral
suites.
Many concerts presenting the "3 tenors" program
with Ian Bostridge at Grand Theatre d'Amiens, Theatre des Champs-Elysees in
Paris, Bartok Bela National Concert Hall in Budapest at the Konzerthaus in
Vienna, at the Grand Auditorium of Luxembourg, the Bruges Concertgebouw, and
Barbican Centre in London.
Their vocal works include the Ariosti's Opera "La Fede
nei Tradimenti" which will tour in Festivals like Vienna, Siena and
Montpellier, Handel's Agrippina at the Halle Festival.
For their next season, Europa Galante will tour in Europe,
Asia, and in the U.S. - presenting a program with Vivica Genaux- and
instrumental programs including "La Foresta Incantata" of
F.Geminiani.
Europa Galante
is the resident orchestra of