For the second time in two years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a rare opportunity to hear one of the world’s best countertenors in concert. Early last year Philippe Jaroussky appeared with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, and tomorrow night at 7:00 PM the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium will host the superb Croatian singer Max Emanuel Cencic accompanied by Il Pomo d’Oro, the excellent Italian baroque orchestra.  

Relatively few child stars remain stars into adulthood but Cencic who piped out the Queen of the Night’s vengeance aria at 10 and recorded Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate for Philips while still a member of the Vienna Boys Choir has achieved just that.

This short U.S. tour lands in New York after stops earlier this week in Mississippi and Louisiana. The concert will feature selections from Cencic’s newest CD Arie Napoletane and will be, I believe, his first local appearance since 2007. Tickets which include museum admission remain available.

Christopher Corwin

Christopher Corwin began writing for parterre box in 2011 under the pen name “DeCaffarrelli.” His work has also appeared in , The New York Times, Musical America, The Observer, San Francisco Classical Voice and BAMNotes. Like many, he came to opera via the Saturday Met Opera broadcasts which he began listening to at age 11. His particular enthusiasm is 17th and 18th century opera. Since 2015 he has curated the weekly podcast Trove Thursday on parterre box presenting live recordings.

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