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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I live this music every day. So, it’s a wondrous delight to come across a work like Reynaldo Hahn’s "À Chloris" ("To Chloris"). I first heard this short French mélodie a few years ago, but fell in ...

Philippe Jaroussky, described by Germany’s Die Zeit as “the Apollo of countertenors’, stands out among his many talented contemporaries as much for the soprano-like beauty of his tone as for the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — It makes perfect sense that Orpheus was the first hero of the 400-year-old art form called opera. Laying aside the political and religious significance of the character in late Renaissance ...

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 ...