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Jakub Józef Orliński--Orfeo
Il Pomo d'Oro
2023
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"Jakub Józef Orliński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjakup ˈjuzɛf ɔrˈlij̃skʲi]; born 8 December 1990) is a Polish operatic countertenor singer and breakdancer. He has performed leading roles with many opera companies, including Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Warsaw Grand Theatre and Oper Frankfurt.
He is the recipient of numerous international awards including the Gramophone Classical Music Award (2019), International Opera Award (2021) and International Classical Music Award (2022).
Education and career
He was born in 1990 in Warsaw.[1] After singing in a choir as a child, as a teenager Orliński joined a nine-member male vocal group and was chosen to sing countertenor parts in some Renaissance music.[2] He also became a fan of The King's Singers, who inspired him to take his interest in the genre further.[2]
He began his music career in the male choir Gregorianum led by Berenika Jozajtis, with which he performed both in Poland and abroad.[3] He is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.[4] During his studies he participated in a number of performances organized by the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art.
Since 2012, he has been a member of the Opera Academy of the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, and from 2015 to 2017 he studied at the Juilliard School with Edith Wiens.[5] In Poland, he performed the roles of Cupid in Venus and Adonis by Blow and Narciso in Agrippina by Handel. During his stay in Germany, he performed the role of Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina in Aachen and Cottbus,[6] and performed selected songs by Purcell at the Leipzig Opera.
He has performed in Carnegie Hall as well as Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York and met with positive critical reviews from The New York Times.[7] His performances included Handel's Messiah in cooperation with Musica Sacra and Oratorio Society of New York.[8] He also performed in Jonathan Dove's Flight with Juilliard Opera.
He made his debut at the Frankfurt Opera in the 2017/18 season as the title character in Handel's Rinaldo.[12] In 2019, having been invited to perform Eustazio for the Glyndebourne Opera's production in Rinaldo, he was asked two weeks into rehearsals to take over the title role.[13][14][2]
Orliński's debut solo album, Anima Sacra, was released on the Erato label on 26 October 2018, with music by orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev. It consists of Baroque arias by various composers from the Neapolitan School, including what is thought to be world premiere recordings of eight works.[15][16]
A second album Facce d'amore, consisting of "a wide-ranging and well-chosen collection devoted to the many faces of love" from operas by Cavalli, Boretti, Bononcini, Scarlatti, Handel, Predieri, Matteis and Conti, prompted reviewer Brian Robins to commend the singer's "talents as a dramatic singer" and his stylish ornamentation, summing up his voice as "sweet-toned".[20]
In September 2020, he received the Best Singer of the Year title in Berlin awarded by the readers of the Opernwelt magazine.[21] He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, NYC, in December 2021 after having been chosen to play the role of Orpheus’s alter-ego in Matthew Aucoin’s opera Eurydice.[22][23]
In January 2022, he debuted at London's Royal Opera House in the role of Didymus in Katie Mitchell's production of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Theodora.[25] He added another Handel opera to his repertoire in 2023 when he appeared as Athamas and as Cupid in Semele in Munich.[26]
Having taken the role of Gluck's Orfeo into his repertoire, he has sung in the opera in several venues; for the production by Matthew Ozawa at San Francisco Opera in November 2022, Orliński opened the opera dancing a break routine. One reviewer commented that he was "cast to perfection", and with soprano Meigul Zhang "sang and acted wonderfully, with piquant, youthful urgency".[27]
In 2022, he received his second Grammy Award nomination in the Best Opera Recording category for his performance in Matthew Aucoin's Eurydice produced by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.[28]"; Wikipedia (edited)
