One afternoon last July, a small, anxious crowd gathered in the lobby of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, hoping for a glimpse of Philippe Jaroussky, the young French countertenor who was to give a Baroque ...

A friend was buying tickets over the phone for a Canadian Opera Company performance when the salesperson issued a warning: "You do realize, sir, that this production features two countertenors?" That ...

San Diego Early Music Society began its 40th season with an astonishing concert Sunday night. French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, accompanied by Ensemble Artaserse, thrilled a sold-out crowd at St ...

Imeneo, Movements: Se potessero i sospir' miei Philippe Jaroussky, Director, Countertenor George Frideric Handel, Composer Ensemble Artaserse Riccardo Primo, Re di Inghilterra, Movements: Agitato da ...

«A countertenor voice – says Jaroussky – leaves no one indifferent. It may startle or move, but it invariably touches our sensibility. A countertenor is not an exceptional being; voice register and ...

Countertenors are a decidedly acquired taste — men who are trained to sing in the manner of women, or more accurately, in the style of the castrati, those singers hundreds of years ago who were ...

Jaroussky/Forsythe/Baráth/I Barocchisti/Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera/Fasolis (Erato label) Gluck, Mozart opines in Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, created characters “so lofty they sound as ...

The countertenor delivered a promising if imperfect performance in the program presented by Boston Early Music Festival at Jordan Hall. Ask any classical music listener to name the three most ...

Philippe Jaroussky cuts a masculine figure on the cover of his new album, Farinelli: Porpora Arias, but you might do a double take upon hearing the music. The arias the French opera singer performs on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. The phrase ''to suffer for one's art'' is a bit of a cliche nowadays, but go back 300 years and there would be many a young boy who could ...

The world of the countertenor is a weird, high-pitched place, where the possibilities of the male voice are pushed to Bee Gees extremities. Which is why I'm sitting in a swanky Paris cafe choking on ...

‘A sort of diary, in which composers could truly write what they felt – a far cry from … more conventional opera commissions.’ Philippe Jaroussky makes a passionate case for the 18th-century chamber ...