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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Philippe Jaroussky, Contratenor

January 14, 2020
C/ Palau de la Música, 4-6, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

The French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, a superstar in the baroque repertoire, offers a program of lieder by Schubert and Schumann, who never in their lives heard a grown man navigate in the higher registers they associated exclusively with women and children. Even for listeners today, the experiment may take some adjustment. —M.G.

Pianist Jérôme Ducros and contratenor Philippe Jaroussky © Simon Fowler.