Arno Raunig
the Opera singer, writer, producer
Sopranist, Countertenor, male-soprano
Arno Raunig is the first Austrian Countertenor and Sopranist, multifaceted artist. He is one of the main figures, like Alfred George Deller in England, in popularizing the return of the countertenor voice to Renaissance and Baroque music in Austria in the 20th century.
But he went further than Deller and revived the most difficult baroque arias that can only be sung by virtuoso famous castrati such as Farinelli, Caffarelli, Senesino.
Opera is the supreme discipline of classical music.
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Arno Raunig sang everywhere in the world - from America to New Zealand.
His career has continued for more than half a century: at the age of 9, he started as a soloist with the Vienna Boys' Choir and for this time he has been celebrated at the Operas of Rom, Vienna, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Dresden, Zurich, Warschau and so on.
