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Faces of classical music
2019-12-13 17:20:00
Jakub Józef Orliński: A Millennial Countertenor's Pop-Star Appeal
By Rebecca MeadNew Yorker — July 15, 2019Jakub Józef Orliński brings a swooning sultriness – and a bunch of break-dancing moves – to the Baroque-music revival.Shortly after Jakub Józef Orliński, a young Polish countertenor, made his début at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, in a 2017 production of Cavalli's "Erismena", he was celebrating with several other singers when he got a phone call from one of the event's organizers. An ensemble scheduled to appear the next day on a live broadcast of "Carrefour de Lodéon", a French radio program, had dropped out. Would Orliński jump in and perform? Orliński, who was twenty-six at the time, was in high spirits, having played the role of Orimeno with goofy, irrepressible energy. He'd made his first entrance by leaping onto a chair, launching into a jaunty aria, and then – exhibiting a skill singular among opera singers – throwing himself into a sequence of break-dancing […]
2018-11-19 19:25:00
Donnerstag, Opéra Comique, 17 November 2018
Salle Favart Image: Vincent Pontet Michael (tenor) – Damien Bigourdan, Safir Behloul Michael (trumpet) – Henri Deléger Michael (dancer) – Emmanuelle Grach Eva (soprano) – Léa Trommenschlager, Elise Chauvin Eva (basset horn) – Iris Zerdoud Eva (dancer) – Suzanne Meyer Luzifer (bass) – Damien Pass Luzifer (trombone) – Mathieu Adam Luzifer (dancer) – Jamil Attar Michael’s accompanist (piano) – Alphonse Cemin Swallow Clowns (clarinets) – Alice Caubit, Ghislain Roffat Two Youths (saxophones) – Eléonore Brundell Old Woman – Bernadette Le Saché Messanger – Antoine Amariutei Nurses – Maxime Morel, Alphonse Cemin Doctor – Simon Guidicelli Child Michael – Ilion Thierrée Luzifer bass (Damien Pass), Michael tenor (Damien Bigourdan)Image: Stéfan Brion What a year it has been for Karlheinz Stockhausen. The ninety-year-old composer from Sirius seems in this, the year of his ninetieth birthday celebrations, to be as strongly with us as […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-03-07 03:04:00
Jakub Józef Orliński: "I have already jumped over all of my dreams"
[…] mistake, because after such a celebration and premiere, I wasn't sure if I will be able to sing well enough. Anyways, I asked if I need to dress up for the interview, but as a reply I got something like – "it's a radio, nobody is going to see you". So as it was so warm that day, I was wearing normal shorts, snickers and a shirt. When I came to the venue with Alphonse Cemin (an incredibly talented pianist), we realized that it was going to be live streamed on Facebook and that we probably should have worn something more appropriate... but it was too late!All that is to say that our, let's say very normal / casual look combined with the extremely emotional and beautiful piece composed by Vivaldi, made such an explosive mixture that people just liked it and shared it everywhere. This is the only thing […]
2016-02-18 19:45:05
Eriksmoen/Cemin (Alpha)Rising soprano Mari Eriksmoen has chosen her repertoire for this disc well, even if, at only 47 minutes, she has been a bit stingy with it. Her selection of nine songs by Hugo Wolf emphasises a sense of mischief, and the recording captures well the crystalline yet supple quality of her voice and her direct, communicative way with text. Her Strauss selection includes three of the Ophelia Songs, which she makes sound at once confiding and otherworldly, Alphonse Cemin offering sensitive, mercurial support from the piano. Eriksmoen is even more persuasive in her native Norwegian. Five songs by Grieg find her relishing each word – A Bird’s Song sounds especially poised and elegant – but the disc’s real discoveries, at least for non-Norwegians, are five songs by Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, a friend of Grieg and a prolific and imaginative composer herself. Setting childlike, nature-inspired poetry to music, these are vivid little […]