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 ...
BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France — On a recent afternoon, French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky greeted the parents of children who had enrolled in a music academy he founded a few months earlier here on ...
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 ...
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 ...
From Shostakovich and Perlman to Bernstein and Lady Gaga - the countertenor shares his musical passions on and off the stage How do you mostly listen to music? I listen to music when I’m travelling, ...
Philippe Jaroussky is one suave countertenor. Were there an early music Rat Pack, he could lead it. Appearing with the Venice Baroque Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday, Jaroussky, who ...
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 ...
to appear with the superlative period-instrument ensemble? In an unusual move, the orchestra was nowhere to be seen or heard Saturday at the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Mixon Hall. Instead, the ...
In the upcoming performances of “St. Matthew Passion,” BWV 244 by J.S. Bach, in South Korea, renowned countertenor Philippe Jaroussky will join forces with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by ...
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 ...
On a recent afternoon, French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky greeted the parents of children who had enrolled in a music academy he founded a few months earlier here on the outskirts of Paris. “If we ...