Croatian countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic (b. 1976) is one of the most gifted opera singers of his generation. The former chorister with the Vienna Boys Choir began a prolific stage career in 1991, singing for some of the world's greatest conductors, coupled with a series of recordings ranging from The Magic Flute to Gluck'sOrfeo and various lesser-known works. Since 2006, he has specialized in the repertoire of Georg Friedrich Handel, with productions of Rodrigo, Faramondo and Opera Arias. In 2011, Max Emanuel Cencic returns to Vivaldi for the opera Farnace with Diego Fasolis. After a work dedicated to Vinci(Artaserse), the countertenor pays tribute to the Serenissima in Venezia: Opera Arias of the Serenissima, published in 2013. In 2014, he twice honored the little-known German composer Johann Adolph Hasse: in the recital Rokoko: Hasse Opera Arias and at the Opéra royal de Versailles, where he sang and directed the opera Siroe, re di Persia. Following a recording of Vinci's Catone in Utica with Riccardo Minasi and a collection of Neapolitan arias released in 2015, the countertenor appears in the first complete performance of Handel's opera Arminio conducted by George Petrou.
