Review: Electrifying Italian countertenor lights up Monkstown

Irish Chamber Orchestra

Soloist: Filippo Mineccia

Monkstown Parish Church, Dublin

Do you like your countertenors sweet, sensitive or sensuous? I like mine electrifying, and that is exactly what we got when the Italian Filippo Mineccia was parachuted in at short notice on his way home from a gig in Japan, to replace the indisposed original artist. His arrival provided a riveting close encounter of the countertenor kind.

Not many countertenors of Mineccia’s sublime ...