Arcangelo are delighted to be appearing in concert with Emőke Baráth in 2025/26.
Emőke Baráth quickly attracted the attention of the musical world by becoming a prizewinner in several prestigious competitions – First Prize in the Cesti Competition in Innsbruck, Grand Prix de l'Académie du Verbier Festival, Prix Junio Prima Primissima in Hungary. Her career took off when she sang Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare conducted by Alan Curtis. A little later, she made a dazzling debut at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in the title role of Cavalli's Elena.
In addition to her obvious virtuosity, music lovers discovered a full-bodied timbre capable of the most diaphanous nuances in the upper register, and a refined singing of incomparable embodiment driven by her love of words. On the strength of these assets, Emőke Baráth's art is deployed in a vast repertoire under the baton of some of the most illustrious conductors. These include La Musicà and Euridice in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (Iván Fischer and Emiliano Gonzalez Toro); Romilda in Cavalli's Xerse (Emmanuelle Haïm); the title role in Cavalli's Hipermestra (William Christie); Morgana in Händel's Alcina (Ottavio Dantone and Emmanuelle Haïm); Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons (György Vashegyi and Ádám Fischer); Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (Marc Minkowski). For the 20th century, she has sung Poulenc's Stabat Mater and Gloria (Bernard Têtu and Bertrand de Billy) and the Angel in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise (Sylvain Cambreling).
Emőke Baráth has worked with leading baroque ensembles such as Arcangelo, Il Pomo d'Oro, Europa Galante, Le Concert d'Astrée, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Concerto Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, or symphony orchestras such as the Orchestres Nationaux de France and de Lyon, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Royal Orchestra, the Detroit and Washington Symphony Orchestras, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Saõ Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra.
Her extensive discography includes several titles recorded for Erato-Warner Classics, Naïve, Alpha Classic, CPO, Glossa and Hungaroton. She sang Ormindo in Handel's Partenope with Il Pomo d'Oro and alongside Philippe Jaroussky. Jaroussky invited her to take on the different roles of Euridice in his recording La Storia di Orfeo with Diego Fasolis. With the same partners, she recorded Amore in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.
An exclusive artist with Erato-Warner Classics, Emőke released her first solo disc, Voglio Cantar, in 2019, devoted to the finest works of the Seicento. Her recent disc Dualità, devoted to arias by Handel, was released in 2022, conducted by Philippe Jaroussky.