Vancouver Playhouse
Philippe Jaroussky: La Gelosia – Cancelled
This Concert Has Been Cancelled
Due to complications associated with the securing of the appropriate work visas for their US concerts, the Ensemble must postpone their North American tour. Despite extraordinary efforts, the Ensemble’s application has been continuously delayed, and Mr. Jaroussky’s Paris-based management team has now determined that the proper paperwork will not be secured in time for their scheduled tour. We are already working with Mr. Jaroussky’s management to reschedule this performance for our 2027˗2028 EMV Season. While we are confident that this will be successful, we are not able to announce the day, date, time, or location of the rescheduled performance.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email Natalie Rostov at boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca or call (604) 732-1610.
Artists: Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor and Ensemble Artaserse
Post-concert talk to begin shortly after the concert concludes
Runtime: Approximately 100 min
“The voice is, naturally, light and clear, and the colour range both concentrated and circumscribed.”
– Gramophone
Global star Philippe Jaroussky has established himself as the most admired countertenor of his generation. In this appearance with Ensemble Artaserse, Jaroussky performs a selection of vocal compositions by Scarlatti, Vivaldi, and the 18th-century opera master Porpora, making for a glittering season finale.
Generously sponsored by The Graham & Gayle Cooke Foundation
PROGRAMME
Domenico Scarlatti(1685-1757)
Sinfonia in C (Presto – Adagio)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Ombre tacite e sole
Recit: Ombre tacite e sole
Aria: Con piede errante e lasso
Recit: Qui, tra tenebre oscure
Aria: Allora d’intorno a te
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Sinfonia in e minor (Adagio – Ricercare al quarto tono – Largo – Presto)
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)
La Gelosia
Recit: Perdono, amata Nice
Aria: Bei labbri
Recit: Son reo, non mi difendo
Aria: Giura il nocchier
Interval
Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)
La Gelosia
Recit: Perdono, amata Nice
Aria: Bei labbri
Recit: Son reo, non mi difendo
Aria: Giura il nocchier
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for strings in g minor KV157 (Allegro-Largo- Allegro)
Antonio Vivaldi
Cessate, omai cessate!
Recit: Cessate, omai cessate!
Aria: Ah, che infedele sempre
Recit: A voi dunque ricorro
Aria: Nel orrido albergo
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
Born in 1978, Philippe Jaroussky has established himself as the most admired countertenor of his generation.
Jaroussky’s technique allows him the most audacious nuances and impressive pyrotechnics. He has explored a vast Baroque repertoire, from the refinement of the Italian Seicento with Monteverdi, Sances and Rossi, to the staggering brilliance of Handel and Vivaldi arias (singing more music by the latter composer than any other over the last few years).
He has worked with renowned period-instrument orchestras such as L’Arpeggiata, Les Arts florissants, Ensemble Matheus, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Le Concert d’Astrée, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie and Europa Galante with conductors including Christina Pluhar, William Christie, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Marc Minkowski, René Jacobs, Jérémie Rhorer, Emmanuelle Haïm, Jean-Claude Malgoire and Fabio Biondi. With pianist Jerôme Ducros, he has looked beyond the Baroque – to fin-de-siècle French song (the album Opium), as well as premiering contemporary vocal music composed for him by Marc-André Dalbavie (Sonnets de Louise Labé, which Jaroussky sang most recently at the 2014 Salzburg Festival).
In recent years he has collaborated with singers including Cecilia Bartoli and Nathalie Stutzmann, as well as singing with and directing the Ensemble Artaserse, the Baroque orchestra he founded in 2002. The group takes its name from the Vinci opera Artaserse, which Jaroussky revived in its spectacular modern-day permiere as one of five exceptional countertenors in the cast.
Ensemble Artaserse
In 2002, after long collaboration in the most prestigious baroque ensembles in France and Europe, several musicians decided to form Ensemble Artaserse. Those friends were Christine Plubeau (viola da gamba), Claire Antonini (theorbe), Yoko Nakamura (harpsichord and organ) and, of course, Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor). In October 2002 they presented their first and highly-acclaimed concert in the Theatre du Palais-Royal in Paris, with the Musiche a voce sola by the Italian composer Benedetto Ferrari.
With this ability to adapt to numerous repertoires including music by Antonio Vivaldi, George Friedric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli, the ensemble performed progressively in the most famous venues and festivals in France, such as the Festivals of Ambronay, Sablé, Pontoise, Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache, Festival de Musique Ancienne de Lyon, Salle Gaveau, the Auditorium du Louvre and the Théatre du Chatelet in Paris, the Château de Versailles, the Bordeaux Opera, the Nancy Opera etc.
