Polifemo: Tutti: Accendi nuova faceYuriy Mynenko, Max Emanuel Cencic, Pavel Kudinov, Julia Lezhneva, Sonja Runje, Narea Son, George Petrou & Armonia Atenea
ALBUMGismondo - Re di PoloniaMax Emanuel Cencic, Martyna Pastuszka & {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna
ALBUMPorpora: Opera AriasMax Emanuel Cencic, Armonia Atenea & George Petrou
ALBUMPorpora: Germanico in GermaniaMax Emanuel Cencic, Capella Cracoviensis, Jan Tomasz Adamus, Julia Lezhneva, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Juan Sancho, Dilyara Idrisova & Hasnaa Bennani
ALBUMHandel: Ottone, HWV 15Max Emanuel Cencic, George Petrou, Il Pomo d'Oro, Lauren Snouffer, Pavel Kudinov, Ann Hallenberg, Xavier Sabata & Anna Starushkevych
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ALBUMVinci: Catone In UticaJuan Sancho, Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi, Franco Fagioli, Max Emanuel Cencic, Valer Sabadus, Martin Mitterrutzner & Vince Yi
ALBUMHasse: Siroe - Re Di PersiaMax Emanuel Cencic, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Julia Lezhneva, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Lauren Snouffer, Juan Sancho & Franco Fagioli
ALBUMRokoko - Hasse Opera AriasMax Emanuel Cencic, Armonia Atenea & George Petrou
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ALBUMVinci: L'ArtaserseDiego Fasolis, Concerto Köln, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Franco Fagioli, Daniel Behle, Valer Sabadus, Yuriy Mynenko & Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano
ALBUMHandel: Alessandro, HWV 21Max Emanuel Cencic, Julia Lezhneva, Karina Gauvin, Armonia Atenea & George Petrou
ALBUMDuettiLes Arts Florissants, Max Emanuel Cencic & William Christie
ALBUMHandel: Mezzo Soprano - Opera AriasMax Emanuel Cencic, Diego Fasolis & I Barocchisti
ALBUMCaldara: CantatasMax Emanuel Cencic, Ornamente 99 & Karsten Erik Ose
ALBUMScarlatti: Tinte a Note Di Sangue, Dir Vorrei, Pur Nel Sonno Almen Tal'ora, Scritte Con Falso IngannoMax Emanuel Cencic, Ornamente 99 & Karsten Erik Ose
ALBUMVivaldi: Cantatas - RV 670, 671, 683, 684, 685Max Emanuel Cencic, Ornamente 99 & Karsten Erik Ose
ALBUMHandel, G.F.: MessiahChorus Viennensis, Peter Marschik, Ivan Sharpe, Max Emanuel Cencic, Charles Humphries, Robert Torday & Academy of London
ALBUMHaydn, F.J.: Schopfung (Die) (The Creation)Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Peter Marschik, Christian Bauer, Ernst Jankowitsch, Max Emanuel Cencic, Gertraud Schmid & Wiener Volksoper Orchestra
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Max Emanuel Cencic is one of the most impressive of an outstanding crop of European countertenors whose careers blossomed in the first decade of the 21st century. Finding fame as a young boy, Cencic has gone on to appear on the stages of many of the world's top opera houses and concert halls and has had an acclaimed recording career. He is known for the power, richness, agility, and range of his voice.
Cencic was born on September 21, 1976, in Zagreb, Croatia. At six years old, he gained notoriety in his home country for a performance of Mozart's "Der Hölle Rache." In 1987, he joined the Vienna Boys' Choir and has since made his home in Austria. During his time in the Vienna Boys' Choir, he starred as a treble soloist in performances and recordings; he remained a member of the choir until 1992. After his voice broke, he continued to sing as a male soprano, often making solo appearances with the Vienna Boys' Choir, before training as a countertenor. As a countertenor, Cencic has appeared in productions at the Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera House, and the Bavarian State Opera, among others. He has also appeared at such leading concert houses as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. While he has focused primarily on music of the Baroque and early Classical periods, he has also made an album of Rossini arias and has sung contemporary works such as the 2010 premiere of Aribert Reimann's Medea. In the 2010s decade, Cencic expanded his duties when he began taking a turn at directing. He served as the director and lead in the 2016 and 2017 Karlsruhe Handel Festival production of Handel's Arminio, and has since directed and performed in Handel's Serse and Nicola Porpora's rarely staged Polifemo in 2019.
Cencic has recorded widely, including leading roles in Landi's Il Sant'Alessio; Vivaldi's Farnace; Handel's Fernando, Rodrigo, and Faramondo; and Gluck's Ezio, as well as numerous recitals. He collaborated on an album of duets in 2011 with fellow countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, accompanied by William Christie, a frequent collaborator. Cencic has recorded for several labels, including Decca, Capriccio, Erato, and Parnassus Arts, where he was heard on the 2020 album Leonardo Vinci: Gismondo, Re di Polonia. ~ Keith Finke & Stephen Eddins
Hometown
Zagreb, Croatia
Genre
Classical
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