2018-10-28 featured press

John’s Opera Ramblings – Only the Sound Remains

2018-10-28, John’s opera ramblings, by John Gilks

Only the Sound Remains is a chamber opera by Kaija Sariaho based on two Noh plays translated by Ernest Fenellosa and Ezra Pound. The piece was premiered in Amsterdam in 2016 by Dutch National Opera, where it was recorded. It’s a co-pro with Teatro Real, Finnish National Opera and the COC so Toronto audiences will likely get a look at it eventually. Which is good because it’s really hard to figure out much of it from the video recording. As he so often does, peter Sellars directs for both stage and camera and while I like his stage work here I find his video direction quite annoying, especially in the first piece.

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2018-10-25_2 featured press

Seen and Heard International – A Minimalist Opera in a Minimalist Production

2018-10-25 Seen and Heard International, by José M. Irurzun

The voices of the two protagonists were amplified which, I confess, is not to my taste. The characters of Tsunemasa and the Angel were interpreted by French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, who was very good, although this is a much simpler character in vocal terms than what Mr. Jaroussky has handled on previous occasions. The Priest and the Fisherman were performed by baritone Davone Tines who was impressive in both vocal and acting terms.

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2018-10-18 featured press

Teatro Real on Facebook – Press conference for the premiere of Only The Sound Remains

2018-10-17 Teatro Real on Facebook

“Rueda de prensa del esperado estreno en España de la ópera #OnlyTheSoundRemains, de la premiada compositora Kaija Saariaho …”

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2018-01-28 featured press

Time – Grammys 2018: See the Full List of Winners

2018-01-28, Time Magazine, n. N.

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album:
Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas — Philippe Jaroussky; Petra Müllejans, conductor (Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann & Juan de la Rubia; Freiburger Barockorchester)
Crazy Girl Crazy – Music By Gershwin, Berg & Berio — Barbara Hannigan (Orchestra Ludwig)
Gods & Monsters — Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist
In War & Peace – Harmony Through Music — Joyce DiDonato; Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor (Il Pomo D’Oro)
Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift — Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra & Style Of Five Ensemble)

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2018-01-22 featured press

IR Insider – Philippe Jaroussky Begins New Effort to Promote Classical Music

2018-01-22, IR Insider, by Alexa Mamoulides

The Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky opened a few months ago in the outskirts of Paris. Inspired by larger organizations worldwide such as the Démos project in France and El Sistema in Venezuela, Jaroussky hopes to change the demographic of classical music. […]

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2018-01-18_03 featured press

ICMA – Winners 2018

2018-01-18, ICMA, by n. N.

BAROQUE VOCAL
The Händel Album
Philippe Jaroussky, Artaserse
Erato
190295774455

Jaroussky’s Handel CD displays amazing vocal technique and refined taste from the first to the last note. His voice adapts exquisitely to the different qualities of each aria, and transmits all those sentiments and emotions Handel wished to describe with his music. This CD admirably fulfills its aim: the description and communication of sentiments forming the essence of dramatic music in opera.

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2018-01-18 featured press

The New York Times – Can Philippe Jaroussky Help Fix Classical Music’s Diversity Problem?

2018-01-18, The New York Times, by Elian Peltier

“Whether in Hamburg, in New York or in Paris, I sing before the same kind of people,” Mr. Jaroussky said in an interview. “And as much as I love my audience, I’m worried that if we don’t bring more diversity onto the stage, we won’t get a younger and more diverse audience either.”

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2017-12-18_02 featured press

BBC Radio 3 – Afternoon Concert

2017-12-18, BBC Radio 3, Afternoon Concert, by Penny Gore

Penny Gore presents works by Telemann and Bach performed by Philippe Jaroussky and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
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Gay Pages – The Divine Philippe Jaroussky

2017-12, Gay Pages, by Jacques Botha

Jaroussky has been in a relationship for more than ten years. He does not attribute his gay fan base to the fact that he is gay
himself, but rather to the fact that the classical art has such significant gay support. It is about the classical culture and not
about the singer’s orientation. This hasn’t stopped him from doing his bit for charities though. Philippe has been involved
with the IRIS association, that helps patients with primary immune-deficiencies, as well as LINK that supports the rapid
AIDS screening activities carried out by the AIDES association.

So what’s next? Well, Philippe has talked openly about his interest to do some classic French songs by artists such as Brel
and Piaf, but also possibly venturing into electronic music. With artists such as Adam Lopez easily crossing over into the
mainstream arena with head voices, Philippe has the opportunity to really extract the best of both worlds. […]

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2017-11-28 featured press

Opera Today – Philippe Jaroussky and Ensemble Artaserse at the Wigmore Hall

2017-11-28, Opera Today, by Claire Seymour

‘His master’s masterpiece, the work of heaven’: ‘a common fountain’ from which flow ‘pure silver drops’. At the risk of effulgent hyperbole, I’d suggest that Antonio’s image of the blessed governance and purifying power of the French court – in the opening scene of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi – is also a perfect metaphor for the voice of French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, as it slips through Handel’s roulades like a silken ribbon. […]

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