Described by the "Times" as "a baroque star", countertenor Raffaele Pe covers a wide musical repertoire that goes from Recitar singing to contemporary opera.
With his Julius Caesar. A Baroque Hero Raffaele was the 2019 awarded Abbiati Prize by Italian Music Critics for Best Album. The CD – Considered by “Times” and “Die Welt” as one of the best 2018 recordings – presents arias dedicated to Julius Caesar that are world premieres or modern times premieres.
Raffaele Pe regularly collaborates with top level conductors and stage directors like Jordi Savall, René Jacobs, John Eliot Gardiner, William Christie, Giovanni Antonini, Graham Vick, Claus Guth, Pierluigi Pizzi, and Damiano Michieletto.
Raffaele often conducts the artistic collective La Lira of Orfeo he created in 2015. Since they have produced five album recordings.
Considered one of the most refined interpreters of Handel, Raffaele has performed iconic roles from most of his opera including, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo, Orlando, Serse, Alessandro Severo, Nero, Arbace, Aci, Disinganno. Through years he has invited by some of the most important theatres, like the Teatro alle Scala, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Teatro Real de Madrid, Opéra National du Rhin, and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
He is also a committed interpreter of Monteverdi, Cavalli, and of some of the Seventeenth century’s lesser-known composers and is often the protagonist of modern days premieres such operas. Some of these includes Cavalli’s Hipermestra at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Melani’s Empio Punito and Marazzoli’s Amore Malato at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa, Cavalli’s Veremonda at the Spoleto Festival US.
Has always combined an intense theater activity with concert performances in some of the most important halls and international symphonic institutions like the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the Wigmore Hall in London.
Lebanese pianst, composer, and visual artist Zad Moultaka has been written the opera Hémon specifically for Raffaele Pe’s vocal traits. The new work – based on Sophocles’ Antigone – was premiered at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasburg last March where Raffaele Pe performed in the baritone range, and then in that of a soprano.
More, world-renown cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima realized for Raffaele a new setting of Stabat Mater for solo, orchestra and choriber by Filippo Arriva, who was first performed at Teatro Bellini in Catania in december 2021 following their first collaboration on Dante's Inferno at Ravenna festival the year.
