Monteverdi “E pur io torno qui”
from L’incoronazione di Poppea [9’30]

 

Voglio di vita uscir [5’30]
Marini Passacalio
from Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale, Op. 22 [5’30]

 

Caccini “Amarilli, mia bella”
from Le nuove musiche [3’]

 

Frescobaldi “Così mi disprezzate”
from Arie musicali, Book 1 [3’]

 

Kerll Sonata for Two Violins in F major [8’]

Strozzi Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2: L’amante consolato [4’]

Cavalli “Incomprensibil nume”
from Pompeo Magno [3’]

 

Pallavicino Sinfonia f
rom Demetrio [3’]

NETTI “Misero core”…”Si, si, si scioglia si”…”Dolcissime catene”
from La Filli [7’]

 

Sartorio “La certezza di tua fede”
from Antonino e Pompeiano [3’]

 

NETTI “Quanto più la donna invecchia” [3’]

“Son vecchia, patienza”
from L'Adamiro [5’]

 

Jarzębski Tamburetta
from Canzoni e concerti [3’]

 

Moratelli “Lungi dai nostri cor”
from La Faretra smarrita [5’]

 

*The Program is subject to change.   

 

 

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 in recording. His sold-out concerts and recitals throughout Europe, America and Asia have attracted new followers to the art form. His album #LetsBaRock was released in September 2024, following the success of Beyond, which was released in October 2023; both albums will continue to tour the world through the 2025/26 season. Orliński has been the recipient of many prestigious awards such as the Opus Klassik award for Male Singer of the Year (2023), the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for Merit to Culture in Poland (2024), the BBC Music Magazine Award for his performance in Beyond, Great Britain (2024), the International Classical Music Award for his album Anima Aeterna, France (2022), as well as two Grammy nominations for recordings of Agrippina and Eurydice.

 

Jakub has a global fanbase with hundreds of thousands of social media followers and has worked as a model and influencer with international brands including Rolex, Netflix, Orange, Louis Vuitton, Levi’s, Nike, BMW, Lacoste, and MAC Cosmetics. He is also an accomplished breakdancer –prizes include fourth place at the Red Bull BC One Poland Cypher competition, and second place at both the Stylish Strike – Top Rock Contest and The Style Control competition. Few other opera singers can claim to have conquered the stages of the world’s greatest concert halls and the covers of Polish Vogue, Esquire, and Elle, but this is a testament to Jakub’s unique pop star appeal. His “ravishing” (The Guardian) live performances have sold out concert halls and opera houses all over the world.

 

For the upcoming 2025/26 season, Orliński is set to continue his dynamic presence on the global stage with a series of exciting concerts, recitals, and tours. The start of the season will see him embark on a #LetsBaRock tour across Europe, his innovative live project with Aleksander Dębicz. Further highlights include two highly anticipated Wigmore Hall recitals in London, a return to the Wiener Konzerthaus with Il Pomo d’Oro for their Beyond programme, as well as performances of Handel's Messiah alongside Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The beginning of 2026 will bring him back onto the opera stage as Athamas in Handel's Semele at the Dutch National Opera before he embarks on a tour performing Handel’s Giulio Cesare across Europe with Il Pomo d’Oro. He also performs various recitals across Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Shanghai, followed by a broader European recital tour in May-June 2026.

 

In the 2024/25 season, Orliński continued his extensive European tour of his album Beyond with Il Pomo d’Oro, and debuted his project #LetsBaRock with Aleksander Dębicz at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at Kammermusiksaal of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He performed the role of Ottone in Agrippina at Opernhaus Zurich, and had many oratorio performances, including Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Handel’s Deborah in Utrecht, Paris, Vienna, and Bayreuth. Previous season highlights include performances on the prestigious stages of the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of the BBC Proms, Opéra Royal in Versailles, The Athens Epidaurus Festival, and the Edinburgh International Festival. Orliński was also an acclaimed performer at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

As an exclusive recording artist for Warner Classics/Erato, Jakub has earned critical acclaim for his recordings of undiscovered early music gems. His album, Beyond, released in October 2023, was named one of The Times’ best classical albums of the year. In September 2024, he released #LetsBaRock, an innovative album reimagining baroque music with contemporary instruments, including drums, bass guitar and moog.

 

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 performance and recording of many operas-in-concert, 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. Projects included outstanding opera-in-concert with Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Handel’s Berenice, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo, recital tours including ‘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.

In the 2024/25 season, the orchestra continued 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 performed their critically acclaimed programme of Gesualdo’s Sacrae Cantiones, and Monteverdi’s Vespers with conductor Giuseppe Maletto. In recital, the ensemble joined forces with Michael Spyres, Pene Pati, Joyce Didonato, and Jakub Józef Orliński and began a new collaboration with cellist Anastasia Kobekina, which will continue into 2028. The orchestra reunited with Giovanni Sollima for performances of ‘Al-Bunduqiyya - The Lost Concerto’ across Europe. Recordings released included Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, recorded following a sell-out European tour with Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev, along with releases of new projects with lutist Miguel Rincon, Francesco Corti, and tenor Pene Pati.

The 2025/26 season sees a 12-concert European tour of Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Jakub Józef Orliński and Sabine Devieilhe in the lead roles, a return to Asia with ‘Beyond’, Bach’s St. John’s Passion under Maxim Emelyanychev with the il Pomo d’Oro Choir, and a selection of Concerti Grossi across Europe. In recital, the orchestra reunites with Anna Prohaska for a programme of Bach and Buxtehude under Francesco Corti.

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.