Listening to a man singing like a female soprano can make some people uneasy. But the ears quickly adjust when the voice is John Holiday's.

At age 33, Holiday is considered one of the finest countertenors — the highest male part in opera — of his generation. In 2014 his musicality and immediate connection with the audience were palpable at Plácido Domingo's international Operalia competition, where he took third prize. The same year he played the mischievous Sorceress in Barrie Kosky's production of "Dido and Aeneas" at Los Angeles Opera, where Domingo is general director.

On Thursday, Holiday makes his debut in Walt Disney Concert Hall with Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Leonard Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms."

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