Founded in 2012, il Pomo d’Oro soon established itself as an ensemble of outstanding quality in the field of historically informed performance. After 11 years, il Pomo d’Oro is looking back on a prolific concert presence worldwide, and an impressive list of 44 recordings, many of them award-winning – and more to be released in 2025.
The ensemble is particularly renowned for working with singers, be it for solo recitals, or entire operas, performed and recorded in some of the most prestigious theatres around the world.
Recent productions include Handel’s Theodora which introduced the new vocal ensemble ‘il Pomo d’Oro choir’ alongside a stellar cast. The concert recording won the BBC Music Magazine’s Choral Award in 2023. The recording of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Joyce DiDonato is nominated for a Grammy in 2025.
The 2022/23 season also saw productions of Handel’s Ariodante and a sold-out run of Tolomeo, followed by Handel’s Berenice and Alcina in 2024 and Jephtha in 2025, all conducted by Francesco Corti.
In 2023/24, il Pomo d’Oro continued to tour the famous Eden project with world renowned mezzo-soprano and frequent collaborator Joyce DiDonato, and a new tour of rarely performed early music with countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, entitled Beyond.
In the field of instrumental music, the ensemble focuses on projects with its chief conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, and Francesco Corti as principal guest conductor and harpsichord soloist.
Zefira Valova, the concert master of il Pomo d’Oro, also leads the orchestra and appears as a violin soloist.
In 2023, il Pomo d’Oro launched its biggest recording project: the complete recording of Mozart’s symphonies, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, in collaboration with the French label Aparté. The first two volumes are already released, each with an instrumental solo concerto as a bonus.
