Handelian dream team: Jaroussky and Baráth delight in Budapest

The French soprano delivers an A-list performance as the Egyptian queen, donning a variety of Hollywood guises at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

The opening night of Müpa’s Early Music Festival had all the makings of an excellent concert and it delivered in abundance.

Jaroussky and his Ensemble Artaserse provide moments of sublimity in Handel's lesser-known opera arias

Considering how rarely celebrated diva Cecilia Bartoli appears in London, Wigmore Hall certainly pulled off a coup by making her duo concert with Philippe Jaroussky happen.

The countertenor voice seems to polarise opinion like no other - you either love it or hate it, there is little middle ground - and even amongst the aficionados (in whose number I count myself), there can be strong, almost tribal allegiances to one school or another and sometimes to individual proponents.

Emőke Baráth y Carlo Vistoli, amantes de leyenda en una exploración del amor handeliano de la mano de Philippe Jaroussky.