A pioneer of the countertenor voice in Poland, Jakub Józef Orliński has become a rising star of international opera in the 2010s and 2020s. He has made critically acclaimed appearances in the U.S. and Germany and has released several albums on Ëvoe and on the major Erato label. After he won the Gramophone Classical Music Award as Young Artist of the Year in 2019, Orliński found new opportunities. The role of Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice is among his specialties, and he recorded that opera on Erato in 2024.
Orliński was born in Warsaw on December 8, 1990. He sang as a yo...