While other opera singers try to mark their Metropolitan Opera debuts with a musical flourish, Jakub Józef Orliński stood out with a twisting leap.
And then there's Orliński, 31. As a countertenor -- the male voice with the highest range -- Orliński's usual musical choices trend older, as in 18th century, 100 years before what some might call the golden age of opera. But the hobby he is known for is nothing but modern: when he's not singing Baroque gems, Orliński break dances."In breaking, there is a lot of freedom.
"But we were doing it because people were hungry for culture, you know, they were really hungry for anything, for entertainment of any sort," he said.For his Met debut, Orliński sang in"Eurydice," a new opera by Matthew Aucoin, with a libretto by playwright Sarah Ruhl, that retells the myth of Orpheus from Eurydice's perspective. In this telling, Orpheus loves Eurydice, but he's almost constantly distracted by the music in his head.
"Orpheus is just like this normal dude, who just has this superpower, which is me, his double, his shadow, 'the music,'" Orliński explained.
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