Countertenor: Anthony Roth Costanzo & Ensemble Led By Dan Schlosberg
Following his performances with Jupiter Ensemble to inaugurate the Frick’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium in April 2025, Anthony Roth Costanzo returns with a program tied to his latest project: Countertenor, a new book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux and companion recording on Nonesuch Records. Both illuminate the
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countertenor voice as an instrument of reinvention—part oddity, part divinity. Costanzo brings the album to the Frick stage with an ensemble led by Dan Schlosberg. Seventeenth-century Baroque laments by Monteverdi and Dowland give way to a Mozart duet, a Hawaiian song, and avant-gardist Klaus Nomi's “You Don't Own Me.” Costanzo also performs a 2024 work written for him by Osvaldo Golijov, concluding with a hypnotic aria from Philip Glass's iconic Einstein on the Beach. Image Credit: Anthony Roth Costanzo, Countertenor cover design by Na Kim; photo by Mario Wurzburge