In collaboration with the Seville Early Music Festival (FEMA), Saturday 1 April at 20.00 hours, the polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński accompanied by the baroque ensemble Il Giardino d'Amore, conducted by violinist Stefan Plewniak, will perform a repertoire with works by Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Friedrich Handel.
Magnetic. captivating. Overwhelming. The young artist Jakub Józef Orliński (Warsaw, 1990) he is not only one of the most celebrated voices of his generation, of which critics have proclaimed both the extraordinary beauty of his singing line and his tremendous stage impact. He is also a singer connected to the contemporary impulses of the young audience that admires him and follows him on social networks., for Orliński is a passionate b-boy, that is to say, an accredited break dancer- dance - to the point that he has been awarded in hip-hop competitions- connected to urban cultures, He has starred in streetwear spots and has acted as a dancer, model and acrobat for Nike campaigns, Samsung o Levi’s, among other large international companies.
For your presentation in Seville, Jakub Józef Orliński is accompanied by The Garden of Love, the excellent baroque ensemble, gifted for brilliant and expressive interpretations, that the Polish violinist Stefan Plewniak founded in Krakow in 2012 and with whom he often performs on international tours.
Two of the relevant composers in his already important discography, Haendel, of which Agrippina has recorded, plus some arias from other operas, and Vivaldi, of which he has registered a beautiful Stabat Mater, center the repertoire of an evening that, organized in collaboration with the Seville Early Music Festival, that increases its presence in the Maestranza, promises to be one of the great attractions of the season.
The baroque becomes contemporary in the voice and attitude of Jakub Józef Orliński, the brilliant and daring countertenor of our time.
tickets, whose prices range between €20 for Paraíso and €35 for Patio, can be purchased through www.teatrodelamaestranza.es and at the box office of the Theater itself.
JAKUB JOSEF ORLINSKI ©Jiyang Chen