Jonathon Adams

Baritone

“The baritone Jonathon Adams made a singular Philharmonic debut. Adams, who identifies as two-spirit — the term used by Indigenous communities for those who are nonbinary — did not put on airs…. [They] reveal[ed] a magnificently sonorous timbre. Adams enunciated words like a deep-toned voice-over artist and used classic Handelian word painting in the aria “The people that walked in darkness,” adopting a shadowy tone before opening up into resplendent high notes on the word “light.” This was good old-fashioned oratorio style, in which singing is an elevated form of recitation.”

Oussama Zahr, The New York Times

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VIVALDI Gloria, R 589

HANDEL L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (1740) Part 2

HANDEL Saul “He comes, he comes!/O godlike youth, by all confess'd”

HANDEL L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (1740) Part 4