Jakub Józef Orliński / Il pomo d’oro
Beyond
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- 18:00 / Cancelled 18:00 / Sold out Sunday, 18:00
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
50% – Under 30 years old
15% – Over 65 years old
- Countertenor
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Il Pomo d’Oro
Il pomo d'oro was founded in 2012 and is characterized by an authentic, dynamic interpretation of operas and instrumental works from the Baroque and Classical period. The musicians, all well-known specialists, are among the best in the field of historical performance practice.
The ensemble has become known for its concert performance and recording of many operas, and has worked with conductors Riccardo Minasi, Maxim Emelyanychev, Stefano Montanari, George Petrou, Enrico Onofri and Francesco Corti. Concert master Zefira Valova leads the orchestra in various projects. Since 2016 Maxim Emelyanychev has been its chief conductor, and since 2019 Francesco Corti is principal guest conductor.
The ensemble has collaborated on performances and recordings with world renowned instrumentalists including Francesco Corti, Giovanni Sollima, Edgar Moreau, Shunske Sato, and Dmitry Sinkovsky, and superstar singers including Joyce DiDonato, Cecilia Bartoli, Jakub Józef Orliński, Michael Spyres, Ann Hallenberg, Sandrine Piau, Mélissa Petit, Franco Fagioli, Max Emanuel Cenčić, Xavier Sabata, Lisette Oropesa, and Fatma Said to name a few.
Il pomo d'oro is a regular guest in prestigious concert halls and festivals all over Europe and regularly collaborates with mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato. After the worldwide success of their programmes of ‘In War and Peace’ and ‘My favorite things’, il pomo d’oro and Maxim Emelyanychev rejoined Joyce DiDonato for a worldwide tour of her ‘EDEN project that spanned three years, finishing in September 2024. The project won numerous accolades, including a Grammy nomination, a Gramophone award, a ‘Choc’ from Classica, an an ‘Opus Klassik’ award.
In 2022 il pomo d’oro started a long-term recording project of Mozart-Symphonies and selected solo-concerts with Maxim Emelyanychev conducting. The first volume, ‘The Beginning and the End’ was released with Aparté in early 2023, featuring Mozart’s first and last symphony and piano-concerto No. 23 with Maxim Emelyanychev as soloist.
The 2023/24 season saw numerous record releases, including Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev, ‘Al-Bunduqiyya - The Lost Concerto’ with Giovanni Sollima and Federico Guglielmo, the second volume of the Mozart project with Emelyanychev and Ivan Podyomov, and ‘Beyond’ with Jakub Józef Orliński, which won the prestigious Fryderyk Award for Early Music Album of the Year, the 2023 Caecilia Award, and the BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award.
The same season, il pomo d’oro continued to tour outstanding opera-in-concert with Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Handel’s Berenice, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo together with conductors Maxim Emelyanychev and Francesco Corti. Recital tours included ‘Al-Bunduqiyya’ with Giovanni Sollima, ‘Contra-Tenor’ with Michael Spyres, ‘EDEN’ with Joyce DiDonato to Asia and South America, and a sell-out 21-concert European tour of ‘Beyond’ with Jakub Józef Orliński followed by a North American tour of 7 concerts. The tour continues and next stops include further performances across Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States.
In the 2024/25 season, the orchestra continues to collaborate with incredible musicians and soloists and will see opera-in-concert productions of Handel’s Alcina and Jephtha, and staged productions of Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. The il pomo d’oro choir will perform their critically acclaimed programme of Gesualdo’s Sacrae Cantiones, and Monteverdi’s Vespers with conductor Giuseppe Maletto. In recital, the ensemble will join forces with Julie Fuchs, Michael Spyres, Pene Pati, Joyce Didonato, and Jakub Józef Orliński and will continue to work with cellist Giovanni Sollima for performances across Europe. The album of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, recorded following a sell-out European tour with Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev, will be released on Erato/Warner records in 2024, along with releases of new projects with lutist Miguel Rincon, tenor Pene Pati, and cellist Giovanni Sollima in the near future.
Il pomo d’oro is official ambassador of El Sistema Greece, a humanitarian project to provide free musical education to children in Greek refugee camps. Il pomo d’oro plays charity concerts and offers workshops and music lessons according to the El Sistema method on a frequent regular basis in various refugee camps in Greece.
The name of the ensemble il pomo d'oro refers to Antonio Cesti's opera from the year 1666. Composed to the wedding celebrations of Emperor Leopold I and Margarita Teresa of Spain, Il Pomo d'Oro was probably one of the largest, most expensive and most spectacular opera productions in the still young history of the genre. 24 different stage designs, a horse-ballet of 300 horses, a fireworks display of 73,000 rockets, numerous ‚special effects'- superlatives, which should make the Emperor's court the highlight of cultural splendour in Europe.
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Jakub Józef Orliński
Countertenor
One of the most beloved and celebrated opera stars of this decade, Jakub Józef Orliński has established himself as one of the world’s leading artists, triumphing on stage, in concert, and on recording. His sold-out concerts and recitals throughout Europe and America have attracted new followers to the art form. An exclusive artist on the Warner Classics/Erato label, his most recent recording accompanied by friend and pianist Michał Biel entitled “Farewells” earned him the prestigious Opus Klassik award for Male Singer of the Year (2023). His new album “Beyond” will be released in October 2023 and will tour throughout the world next season with Il Pomo d’Oro.
Highlights of this season include the highly anticipated 25 dates European tour of the new album in the Fall, and an American tour during spring. Jakub Józef Orlinski will also return on the operatic stage at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Paris in a new production of L’Olimpiade by Vivaldi. He will then join his long-time musical partner, pianist Michał Biel for exclusive recitals throughout Europe.
In the 2022-2023 season, the Polish countertenor went to Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris for a sold out run of the Robert Carsen production of Orfeo ed Eurydice followed by another new production of the same opera at San Francisco Opera by Matthew Ozawa. Mr. Orlinski also joined Pomo d’Oro on a tour to sing the title role in Tolomeo Re d’Egitto on major stages throughout Europe including Teatro Real, Madrid and Paris. Outside the operatic stage, the public had the opportunity to watch the new 1-hour long documentary Music for a while about him that was released during spring on Arte and got the most views for cultural documentary on the European TV channel.
Claudio Monteverdi
L’incoronazione di Poppea: “E pur io torno qui”
Voglio di vita uscir
Biagio Marini
Passacalio de Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale, op. 22
Giulio Caccini
Le nuove musiche: “Amarilli, mia bella”
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Arie musicali (Book 1): “Così mi disprezzate”
Johann Caspar Kerll
Sonata para dois Violinos, em Fá maior
Barbara Strozzi
Cantate, ariette e duetti, op. 2: “L’amante consolato”
Francesco Cavalli
Pompeo Magno: “Incomprensibil nume”
Carlo Pallavicino
Demetrio: “Sinfonia”
Giovanni Cesare Netti
La Filli: “Misero core”… “Si, si, si scioglia si”… “Dolcissime catene”
Antonio Sartorio
Antonino e Pompeiano: “La certezza di tua fede”
Giovanni Cesare Netti
L’Adamiro: “Quanto più la donna invecchia”
L’Adamiro: “Son vecchia, patienza”
Adam Jarzebski
Canzoni e concerti: “Tamburetta”
Sebastiano Moratelli
La Faretra smarrita: “Lungi dai nostri cor”
Regular presence at Gulbenkian Música, Il pomo d’oro reinforces, in each performance, the just and meteoric reputation it has built, over the last ten years, as an ensemble dedicated to historically informed interpretations. After, in 2022, having dedicated itself to celebrating the first decade of its activity, revisiting some of its core repertoire, it now deepens its relationship with the Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, one of the great voices of chant revealed in recent times, through its Beyond Project, especially dedicated to the dawn of the Italian baroque.
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