Philippe Jaroussky - Handel - Lascia ch'io pianga

Philippe Jaroussky (born 13 February 1978 in Maisons-Laffitte, France)] is a French sopranist countertenor. He began his musical career with the violin, winning an award at the Versailles conservatory and then took up the piano before turning to singing. He is noted for a virtuosic coloratura technique and for compelling and enlivened interpretations of baroque cantatas and operas. According to La Terrasse, «this young singer with the tone of an angel and the virtuosity of the devil has come into the limelight in only a few years as the great new French vocal talent.»