This rest! Only a good two minutes Giovanni Battista bononcini’s Aria “Infelice mia costanza takes”, but you will be immersed in it as in an eternity. Jakub Józef Orlinski is the name of the singer who brings the art piece into existence; he has published the Aria recently as a preview to his second Album “Facce d’amore”, and you could prescribe it as a miracle cure for slowing down, over-the-counter.
Orlinski sings bononcini’s “Infelice mia costanza”. Video: Warner/Youtube
Orlinski even such an agent could use currently well. The 28-year-old Polish counter-tenor rehearsing for Handel’s “Belshazzar” in the Zurich Opera house, presented on the title page of “Vogue”, has just received the Gramophone Award as “Young Artist of the Year” in reception, there is a series of Interviews and almost seems to explode with energy when he sits in his Opera house cloakroom opposite. It is very, very, very, very well over everything “,” he says, and you might well add a few more “verys”.
Two years ago, it is now, since Orlinskis career has taken correctly travel, thanks to a misunderstanding. He should sing in Aix-en-Provence for a radio production of Vivaldi’s “Vedrò con mio diletto” came because of the high summer temperatures in short trousers to the recording and learned only then that the performance will also be streamed. The Video went viral: Because Orlinski sings so grandiose, and because it appears to be still amazing, if a classical singer looks like a normal person (or in this case: like a normal person, one of the commentators on Youtube, home of Michelangelo’s David to compare).
Jakub Józef Orlinskis Video with Vivaldi’s “Vedrò con mio diletto” was in the summer of 2017 viral. Video: Youtube
For Orlinski was this Video, however, is only one step in a continuous development, which had once started in a Polish Amateur choir. As a bass-baritone, he sang back then, his talent as a Countertenor, he discovered it was only as he began with a nine-member men’s ensemble Renaissance-works-to-sing – and as the Youngest was obliged to accept the highest match. His role models were the legendary King’s Singers: “singing I’ve studied with the aim of me where to apply.”
at some point, the solo performances he was interested in but more, “because you can cause, as an Individual, more”. So, he has participated in competitions, in the whole of Europe, in the United States. He had always enjoyed travelling, he says, finally, his parents had him already as a small child in the car Packed, then you went to Norway or Slovakia for skiing. Item: he Won these competitions, although rare, but he fell, and received invitations to Cottbus or pouring, and since the Aix-en-Provence on increasingly large stages.
Of the experience in the choir, he will be consumed as before. Music-making was to be divided, he says, and this is more than just a phrase. Although Orlinski quite virtuosic fire can kindle works, but most impressively it is when he lets his voice with the other fuse, if it releases you from the sound of the instruments or seamlessly in it disappears. He love such effects, he says, “but only if you are musically useful”.
“is break dancing as a Meditation.”Jakub Józef Orlinski
The PostScript is not by chance. Because Orlinski is not only a singer, but also an ambitious Breakdancer, and thus a special case on the Opera stage, the must also hear the accusation that he is doing all this for the Image. However, he defends himself, Breakdance’ve heard for him always, as an immediate, liberating response to the music: “I’m not doing this to sell me, but because I like it.”
He needs it too, as compensation. The classical world can already be very “rough and tough and difficult,” says Orlinski, “because the Middle, like a Meditation”. A possibility of excess energy to get rid of. And on the stage “really never” just a means to an end: “I’m not doing a Backflip, just because I can.” Only if it fits the character of a figure when it is shown, for example, as an Agent who must jump from a wall, “then I do love a beautiful role”.
Orlinski as a break-dancer: What he’s capable of, you can see in this Video of the Glyndebourne festival. Video: Youtube
this second Talent contributes a lot to its success, is at all artistic, hedging is still clear. Jakub Józef Orlinski embodies the perfect blend of High and pop culture, and since Vivaldi-the Video he presented on social media accordingly. On Facebook and Instagram, he shows how little he has to do with the cliché of the singer in the penguin costume. And he is happy when after a gig Followers to wait for him who have never heard classical music, “Then I’ll just say: wow, thank you.”
What comes before that, however, has to do with a how Orlinski with a lot of work. In his first Album “Anima Sacra”, for which he received the Gramophone, he invested one and a half years. Together with allies he has numerous works unearthed, which have never before appeared on CD: “to sing An Aria that has been sung for three hundred years, no one, is an incomparable experience.” The ornaments for this, he has also the Cover, the Booklet written, the whole communication, he has helped to shape. Finally, there is only one Chance to make a first Album, “and I like being my own Boss”.
Jakub Józef Orlinskis first CD “Anima Sacra” was awarded with the Gramophone. Photo: Erato
He wants it to stay that way. Although he is currently swamped with Offers, “the only Problem is the selection is”. But he wants to keep the threads in the Hand, not be overwhelmed by the career. As a singer, you’ll say Yes eventually, to the prisoners of the planning, he says, “so I try to enjoy every day” – not only at work, but, as Instagram shows, even when Hiking or at the Cher concert at the indoor stadium.
And in the long term? “At seventy, I’m not going to be safe as a Countertenor on the road,” he says only. Ideas, what could he do with his life, he has certainly enough. And energy to realize it, anyway.
Premiere of Handel’s “Belshazzar” at the Zurich Opera house: Sunday, may 3. November, 19 At. Jakub Józef Orlinskis CD “Facce d’amore” appears on the 15. November at Erato.
Created: 29.10.2019, 17:28 PM
