The Fondazione Academia Montis Regalis is an Italian cultural foundation promoting baroque and classical orchestral training based in the town of Mondovì since 1992. In 1994 it was recognised as a non-profit organisation Organizzazione non lucrative di utilità sociale (Onlus) by the Piedmont Region.
8-722: The orchestra has been directed by conductors including Luigi Mangiocavallo Alessandro De Marchi and Enrico Onofri . The Foundation Academia Montis Regalis was founded in 1992 in Mondovì, Italy, where it has its current headquarters. In 1994 the Foundation created the Academia Montis Regalis Orchestra to promote the Baroque and Classical repertoire from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries according to historical criteria and by using original instruments. It soon became one of
16-679: A series of violin and orchestra concerts with Enrico Onofri. Successively, the orchestra recorded three oratorios from the Roman School of the beginning of the XVIIIth century, for the British label Hyperion: Haendel’s Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Alessandro Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista and Alessandro Scarlatti’s Davidis Pugna et Victoria. It has had an intense recording activity with other prestigious international labels such as OPUS 111, Naïve, Hyperion e Sony, winning many international awards, such as
24-535: The Innsbruck Festival and Turin’s Teatro Regio . The orchestra has taken part in the acclaimed Vivaldi Edition to record all of Vivaldi’s original manuscripts, held in Turin’s National Library. The first CD recorded by the orchestra, Juditha Triumphans, conducted by Alessandro De Marchi, was a great international success. Four more recordings followed, among which the opera Orlando Finto Pazzo and
32-569: The Academia Montis Regalis was awarded the prestigious Italian Music Critics’ Abbiati Prize for its artistic achievements in the field of Early Music. Alessandro De Marchi (conductor) Alessandro De Marchi (born 1962) is an Italian conductor, best known for his interpretation of baroque oratorios and operas, as leader of the Academia Montis Regalis orchestra, and director of the orchestra's foundation in Mondovì , Mons Regalis, one of
40-753: The Diapason d’Or, the Choque du Monde de la Musique, and the Gramophone Choice. From 2010 to 2018 the Academia Montis Regalis has been the resident orchestra of the prestigious Innsbrucker Festwochen Festival, performing every year a Baroque opera as well as various chamber music projects. The first two operas performed at the Landestheater in Innsbruck were L’Olimpiade by Pergolesi and Flavius Bertaridus by Telemann, both acclaimed and recorded live by Sony Classics. In 2005
48-1441: The Unione Musicale di Torino, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Amici della Musica in Perugia, Florence and Padua, the MiTo/Settembre Musica festival in Turin, the Théâtre de l’Opera in Lille, the Théâtre Municipal in Lausanne; the Montreux Festival; the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Théâtre Poissy, the Early Music Festival in Lyon; the Vancouver Festival, the Halle Festival,
56-557: The most well-respected professional ensembles in Italy and abroad. Since the beginning, it was conducted by the most important specialists in the Early Music field: Ton Koopman , Jordi Savall , Christopher Hogwood , Reinhardt Goebel , Monica Huggett , Luigi Mangiocavallo, Enrico Gatti , Alessandro De Marchi , to mention but a few. The orchestra has regularly appeared in some of the most important concert institutions and festivals such as:
64-568: The oldest towns of Piedmont. He was a student of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . Since 2010 De Marchi has succeeded René Jacobs as director of the Innsbruck Festwochen der Alten Musik . In addition to recordings with his home ensemble of Italian baroque works, De Marchi has recorded Rossini's Torvaldo e Dorliska and La pietra del paragone (The Touchstone) with
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