Philippe Jaroussky reunites with Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra at the Opéra Royal of Versailles for a programme devoted to the Neapolitan composer Nicola Porpora, who shaped the voice of the most famous castrato of the eighteenth century, Farinelli. 
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Under the title Porpora & Farinelli: the master and the pupil, Philippe Jaroussky explores the vocal writing of the Neapolitan composer, a formidable pedagogue, through his relationship with his brilliant pupil and castrato. At the head of the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon accompanies this journey into eighteenth-century Neapolitan opera, poised between spectacular virtuosity and suspended melodic lines. The programme unfolds in the distinctive setting of the Opéra Royal of Versailles, a theatre of the Enlightenment where fascination for Italian singers was already very real.
Porpora, a composer for exceptional voices
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