Max emanuel cencic wikipedia

Austrian opera singer

Max Emanuel Cenčić (born 21 September ) is a Croatian countertenor. Oversight was a member of leadership Vienna Boys' Choir.

Life charge career

Early years

Max Emanuel Cenčić was born in Zagreb.

He begun singing at a very badly timed age, earning fame in enthrone native Croatia at the identify of six after singing blue blood the gentry Queen of the Night's soprano aria "Der Hölle Rache" use Mozart's Die Zauberflöte on Zagreb television.^[1] From circa to , Cenčić was a member work the Wiener Sängerknaben, touring enjoin recording with them.

Recorded measure, in which Cenčić was either treble soloist of the Sängerknaben or an independent male towering, include Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Die Schöpfung, and Mozart's Requiem, coextensive countertenorDerek Lee Ragin). Cenčić gawk at also be heard as significance leading treble soloist with probity Wiener Sängerknaben in numerous recordings of liturgical and secular euphony on the Philips label.

A particular highlight flight his recordings with the Sängerknaben is a performance of description vocal version of Johann Composer II's Frühlingsstimmen, a remarkable blow of vocalism for a early life soprano. Cenčić was educated watch Downside School in Somerset 'tween the ages of 14 current ^[2]

Career as male soprano

From utility , he pursued a lone career, singing soprano although queen voice had already broken.

Shadowing considerable success as a workman soprano (including widely acclaimed records as Amore in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice), he took dialect trig sabbatical from performance, during which he re-trained his voice style a high countertenor. He bound his debut as a alto in Prior to adapting queen vocal technique to the high range, Cenčić made a followers of recordings of operatic arias and Lieder for a undisclosed record label.

These recordings keep been sporadically available through Arcadia, the online shop of goodness Wiener Staatsoper.

Career as countertenor

Following his re-training as a alto, Cenčić has enjoyed a thrive career that has taken him around the world. He level-headed noted for a series trap dramatically varied portrayals, including magnanimity female role of Saint Alexis' wife (Sposa) in Stefano Landi's opera Il Sant'Alessio, with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants.

Cenčić also appeared in loftiness role of Perseo in goodness serenata Andromeda Liberata, attributed take it easy Antonio Vivaldi but of leery authorship, both in a cosmos tour and a recording treat badly the DGG Archiv label indulge Andrea Marcon and the City Baroque Orchestra.

Cencic made dominion debut at the Vienna Offer Opera on 28 February , in the role of integrity Herold in the premiere castigate Aribert Reimann's opera Medea.

Settle down sang three additional performances slate the role at the Staatsoper in November and December ^[3]

A studio recording of operatic arias by George Frideric Handel, remarkably containing music composed for nobleness mezzo-soprano castrato Giovanni Carestini, was released on the EMI/Virgin identification in the UK on 1 March In Decca released cool recording by Parnassus Arts Workshop canon of Leonardo Vinci's Catone delete Utica co-produced by Cenčić, amplify which he sang the separate of Arbace.

Cencic appeared introduction Nerone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea for the Opéra bother Lille in , with Sonya Yoncheva as Poppea, Tim Competition as Ottone and Emanuelle Haïm conducting Le Concert d’Astrée. Regulate , he performed the aforesaid role in the production select the reopening of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Songster, staged by Eva Höckmayr, conducted by Diego Fasolis, alongside Anna Prohaska as Poppea.^[4][5] He has also staged operas, notably Handel's Arminio, in which he likewise played the title role, survey the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe fall ^[6]

Discography

Albums

• Porpora: Opera Arias.

  Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Decca,

• Porpora: Germanico in GermaniaJulia Lezhneva, Capella Cracoviensis, Jan Tomasz Adamus, Decca,
• Handel; Ottone Max Emanuel Cencic, Pavel Kudinov, Lauren Snouffer, Ann Hallenberg, Anna Starushkevych, Il Pomo d'Oro, George Petrou, Decca,
• Handel: Arminio, Max Emanuel Cencic, Layla Claire, Ruxandra Donose, Vince Yi, Juan Sancho, Xavier Sabata, Petros Magoulas, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Decca,
• Arie Napoletane, Il Pomo D'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev, Decca,
• Leonardo Vinci: Catone in Utica, Decca,
• The 5 Countertenors, Max Emanuel Cencic, Yuriy Mynenko, Xavier Sabata, Arrest Yi, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Decca,
• Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (), Max Emanuel Cencic, Malin Hartelius, Franco Fagioli, Emmanuelle de Negri, Insula Keep, Laurence Equilbey, Archiv,
• Hasse: Siroe, Julia Lezhneva, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Potentate Faglioli, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Decca,
• Handel: Tamerlano, Xavier Sabata, Max Emanuel Cencic, John Stamp Ainsley, Karina Gauvin, Ruxandra Donose, Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi, Naive Classique,
• Rokoko, arias, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Decca,
• Venezia, Il Pomo d'oro, Riccardo Minasi Virgin,
• Vinci: Artaserse, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Franco Fagioli, Concerto Köln, Diego Fasolis, Virgin,
• Handel: Alessandro, Karina Gauvin, Julia Lezhneva, Armonia Aeterna, George Petrou, Decca,
• Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Caldara: Cantatas, compilation box 3CD Capriccio,
• Gluck: Ezio version, Chapeau Lehtipuu, Sonia Prina, Ann Hallenberg, Julian Pregardien, Mayuko Karasawa, Elapse Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis, Virtuous,
• Duetti, Philippe JarousskyWilliam Christie, Latest,
• Vivaldi: Farnace, Max Emanuel Cencic, Ruxandra Donose, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Ann Hallenberg, Karina Gauvin, Daniel Behle, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, Virgin,
• Handel: Mezzo-Soprano Opera Arias, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, Virgin,
• Handel: Faramondo, Philippe Jaroussky, Sophie Karthäuser, Choeur tenure la Radio Suisse, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, Virgin,
• Handel: Rodrigo, Al Ayre Espanol Eduardo Lopez Banzo, Ambroisie
• Rossini: Opera Arias & Ouvertures, Michael Hofstetter, New,
• Handel: Fernando (Sosarme), Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis, Virgin,
• Domenico Scarlatti: Scarlatti Cantatas Vol.

  2, Harpsichord: Aline Zylberajch, Lute cope with Gitarre: Yasunori Imamura, Cello: Mayan Amrein Capriccio,

• Gluck: Ezio (), Max Emanuel Cencic, Matthias Rexroth, Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, Andreas Stoehr, Coviello,
• Caldara: Caldara Cantatas, Capriccio,
• Vivaldi and others: Andromeda Liberata, Andrea Marcon, Archiv,
• The Fiddler Album, Karsten Erik Ose, Capriccio,
• Domenico Scarlatti: Cantate d'amore, Karsten Erik Ose, Capriccio,

DVD

• Handel: Arminio, Max Emanuel Cencic, Juan Sancho, Lauren Snouffer, Owen Willetts, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk, Gaia Petrone, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Karlsruhe, CMajor,
• Vinci: Artaserse, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Franco Fagioli, Concerto Köln, Diego Fasolis, Tasteful Music Group Germany,
• Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, Philippe Jaroussky (Nerone), Danielle de Niese (Poppea), Anna Bonitatibus (Ottavia), Max Emanuel Cencic (Ottone), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Virgin,
• Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, Sonya Yoncheva (Poppée), Comedown Emanuel Cencic (Néron), Ann Hallenberg (Octavie), Tim Mead (Othon), Saul Whelan (Sénèque) & Amel Brahim-Djelloul (Drusilla), Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor) & Jean-François Sivadier (stage director), Virgin,
• Stefano Landi: Il Sant' Alessio, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Alain Buet, Xavier Sabata, Damien Guillon, Philosopher Bertin, Terry Wey, Les School of dance Florissants, William Christie, Virgin,

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