Described as "a baroque star" by the "Times", a reference artist and in the tireless promoter of Baroque culture, the counter-theinnor Raffaele Pe embraces a repertoire that ranges from Recitar singing to contemporary works tailored to his voice.
In 2015 he founded La Lira di Orfeo, a collective of musicians, artists and researchers with whom Raffaele Pe is introducing a real revolution in the world of Baroque music, proposing a repertoire in continuous rediscovery. From the creation of new critical editions to the design of the shows, Raffaele Pe and the collective move with ease between the arts to create shows that look to the past with a contemporary sensibility.
Following the brilliant debuts at the Berlin Philharmonie for Deutschland Radio Kultur and the Theater an der Wien, in addition to the invitations to the Wigmore Hall, the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, the Handel Festival in Halle and Goettingen, La Lira di Orfeo is now internationally recognized as an authoritative young Italian voice for the interpretation of vocal music between the seven and eighteenth centuries.
Among the latest productions: Aci, Galatea and Polifemo di Handel in the first reconstruction of the version for Senesino realized in collaboration with the Municipal Theatre of Piacenza, Griselda by Alessandro Scarlatti 300 years after its first performance, L' Angelica di Porpora for the 47th Festival of the Valle D'Itria and the revival in modern times of Orpheus of Porpora composed for Farinelli in 1736, which has just been a great success.
The most recent discography of the group includes The Medici Castrato (Glossa), Alessandro Scarlatti. Sacred Concerts (Amadeus) and Julius Caesar. A baroque Hero (Glossa), who won the Abbiati Prize of Italian Music Critics for Best Disc and was elected by the «Times» and “Die Welt” one of the best recording projects of 2018. In September 2021 the ensemble published for Glossa Aci, Galatea and Polifemo, a modern reconstruction of the version written for the castrated singer Senesino in the part of Aci.
Since December 2015 he has been an ensemble in residence at the Music Hall of the Maria Cosway Foundation in Lodi, in order to enhance and pass on the cultural and musical heritage of Maria Hadfield Cosway (1760-1838) in an international perspective.
