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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Countertenors may be two-a-penny these days, but there is still novelty value in hearing a countertenor in repertoire ...

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 ...

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 ...

With members of Venice Baroque Orchestra. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/PHILIPPE.JAROUSSKY THE FRENCHMAN interacts with fans at the autograph-signing in HK City Hall. FRAN ...

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 ...

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 egos and rivalries of the great castrati – of Senesino, Carestini, Farinelli – are legendary. Too few arias, too unheroic a role, or just too little virtuosity (Handel’s beautiful “Verdi prati” ...

What do you get when you combine a male voice with a near-soprano range and the emotive nuances of a diva? A divo, of course: namely, French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. The 26-year-old singer was ...