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Jealousy – it’s one of the seven deadly sins, and we have all felt it. For Baroque composers, it was a dramatic and emotionally rich theme. Almost every opera of the period boasts a gripping jealousy scene. Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky explores both the nuances and the extremes of this emotion in virtuosic arias by Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora, and Domenico and Alessandro Scarlatti. He is accompanied by Ensemble Artaserse, which he co-founded in 2002. Together, they have won global acclaim for a wide variety of projects.
Artists
Ensemble Artaserse
Philippe Jaroussky countertenor
Raul Orellana 1st violin
Jose Manuel Navarro 1st violin
Marco Massera viola
Ruth Verona cello
Pablo Zapico baroque guitar and lute
Yoko Nakamura harpsichord
Programme
Domenico Scarlatti
Sinfonia in C major
Alessandro Scarlatti
Cantata “Ombre tacite e sole”
Philippe Jaroussky countertenor, Raul Orellana 1st violin, Jose Manuel Navarro 1st violin, Marco Massera viola, Ruth Verona cello, Pablo Zapico baroque guitar and lute, Yoko Nakamura harpsichord
Francesco Durante
Sinfonia in E minor
Baldassare Galuppi
Cantata “La Gelosia”
Philippe Jaroussky countertenor, Raul Orellana 1st violin, Jose Manuel Navarro 1st violin, Marco Massera viola, Ruth Verona cello, Pablo Zapico baroque guitar and lute, Yoko Nakamura harpsichord
Interval
Nicola Porpora
Cantata ‟Perdono, amata Niceˮ (‟La Gelosiaˮ)
Philippe Jaroussky countertenor, Raul Orellana 1st violin, Jose Manuel Navarro 1st violin, Marco Massera viola, Ruth Verona cello, Pablo Zapico baroque guitar and lute, Yoko Nakamura harpsichord
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G minor, RV 157
Antonio Vivaldi
Cantata “Cessate, omai cessate”, RV 684
Philippe Jaroussky countertenor, Raul Orellana 1st violin, Jose Manuel Navarro 1st violin, Marco Massera viola, Ruth Verona cello, Pablo Zapico baroque guitar and lute, Yoko Nakamura harpsichord
Additional information
Duration ca. 2 hours (incl. 20 minutes interval)
Chamber Music Hall
37 to 75 €
Introduction
17:45
Series R: Originalklang
With pomp and circumstance
The Baroque – an age of superlatives
Golden, ornate, with magnificent façades – this is often our first impression of the Baroque. Yet behind the glittering surfaces of an era that stretched from the early 17th to the mid-18th century lies a world brimming with artistic curiosity, technical innovation, and striking contrasts.
Biography
Philippe Jaroussky
Philippe Jaroussky, “the sun god among countertenors” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), is arguably the most popular artist of his voice type today – “the best of our time,” writes Der Spiegel. Yet a career as a singer was not a given: “My parents aren’t musicians," he says, "and I only started playing the violin at the age of eleven. For a professional career, of course, that was far too late. But as a teenager I already knew that I wanted music to be part of my life.” Jaroussky, who made his debut at the Philharmonie Berlin in 2010, first studied violin, piano and composition in Versailles and Boulogne before switching to vocal studies, also taking courses in historical performance practice.
Today the countertenor, who founded his period-instrument ensemble Artaserse in 2002, performs with the most distinguished Baroque orchestras and collaborates internationally with conductors such as Emmanuelle Haïm, William Christie, René Jacobs, Christina Pluhar, Marc Minkowski, Jérémie Rhorer, Andrea Marcon, Fabio Biondi and Jean-Christophe Spinosi. His repertoire, however, reaches far beyond Baroque opera and sacred music, extending to French mélodie and even contemporary music theatre. Philippe Jaroussky has received numerous awards, and in 2017 he founded the Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky, which supports young people from disadvantaged cultural backgrounds.
Ensemble Artaserse
After many years of collaboration with leading Baroque ensembles in France and other European countries, Christine Plubeau (viola da gamba), Claire Antonini (theorbo), Yoko Nakamura (harpsichord and organ) and Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) founded a new Baroque ensemble in 2002 to realise their own artistic vision. In October of the same year, the newly-formed Ensemble Artaserse gave its first acclaimed concert at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris, performing music by Benedetto Ferrari — a sensational debut.
Thanks to its remarkable ability to adapt with colour and flexibility to changing instrumental line-ups in programmes featuring music by Vivaldi, Handel, Monteverdi or Cavalli, the ensemble quickly rose to the top ranks of the early music scene. In 2022, Artaserse reached another milestone when, in a large formation and under the direction of Philippe Jaroussky, it performed Handel’s Giulio Cesare on ten evenings at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Opéra de Montpellier. The ensemble appears at such renowned venues as BOZAR in Brussels, the Prague Early Music Festival, the Southbank Centre and the Barbican Centre in London, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and the Prinzregententheater in Munich. With this concert, Artaserse makes its debut at the Philharmonie Berlin.
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