NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.

Jakub Jozef Orlinski, the breakdancing opera countertenor, is set to perform in Singapore at the Victoria Concert Hall. Read ...

His full-bodied countertenor voice is rich in the low register and impressively resonant above the second passaggio. Read ...

Opera singer and breakdancer -- two words you might think would never go together. But the boyishly athletic Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski manages to do both to the very highest level -- ...

JAKUB JOZEF ORLINSKI: (Singing in Italian). Jakub Jozef Orlinski says he was an active kid growing up in Poland, like... ORLINSKI: Rollerblading in a very extreme way in skate parks - I did all those ...