Product Description
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Jonas Kaufmann has already performed many of these roles
on the world's great opera stages. This album consists of
outstanding arias from German opera; music of his homeland, which
he grew up hearing. Includes outstanding German tenor arias from
the great operas of Wagner, Beethoven's only opera Fidelio,
favorite arias by Mozart, and rarely heard opera arias by
Schubert. The great opera conductor Claudio Abbado directs the
Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Track list includes arias from the
Magic Flute, Fidelio, Die Walkure, and others.
About the Artist
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Born in Munich, tenor JONAS KAUFMANN has made
sensational debuts in recent seasons in many of the world's
leading opera houses, appearing at the Royal Opera Covent Garden
in La Rondine site Angela Gheorghiu and in the 2007 new
production of Carmen under Antonio Pappano, as Alfredo in La
Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera, as
Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich,
Vienna State Opera and Metropolitan Opera , as Belmonte in Die
Entführung aus dem Serail at the Salzburg Festival as Faust in Le
Damnation de Faust at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels and
in Fidelio at the Teatro alla Scala under Riccardo Muti. He made
his Salzburg festival debut in 1999 in a new production of
Busoni's Dr. Faust and returned there in 2003 as Belmonte and for
concerts of the Beethoven Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Closely associated with the Zurich Opera since 2001 he has
appeared there in several new productions including the title
roles in Idomeneo, La Clemenza di Tito and Schubert's Fierrabras
as well as Nerone in, L'Incoranazione di Poppea. Other roles in
Zurich have also included the Duke in Rigoletto, the title role
in Gounod's Faust, Florestan in Fidelio, Tamino in Die
Zauberflöte and Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. In
2006 he sang his first performances of the title role in Wagner's
Parsifal in Zurich and that season also sang his first Walther
von Stolzing in a concert performance of Die Meistersinger at the
Edinburgh Festival conducted by David Robertson. He had
previously been heard there as Max in Der Freischutz under Sir
Charles Mackerras.
Jonas Kaufmann sang his first Don Carlos in Zurich in early 2007
and other recent projects included La Traviata the Metropolitan
Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan Zurich Opera and in new
production for the Opera Bastille in Paris. He returns to all
these theatres over the next seasons in projects which include
Don Carlos at Covent Garden, his first Des Grieux in Manon in
Vienna site Anna Netrebko followed by Manon in Chicago with
Natalie Dessay, La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, LA Boheme
and a new production of Carmen in Zurich site Vesselina
Kasarova. In 2009 Jonas Kaufmann will return to the Bavarian
State Opera in the title role of a new production of Wagner's
Lohengrin. These performances will make his debut in the role.
Equally accled on the concert platform, Jonas Kaufmann has
appeared appearing with some of the world's leading conductors
and orchestras. These have included the Berlin Philharmonic under
Sir Simon Rattle and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Cleveland Symphony
Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, and the Vienna Philharmonic
under Helmut Rilling. Kaufmann has also received high praise as a
Lieder interpreter and with his pianist, the renowned Helmut
Deutsch, he has given recitals throughout Europe as well as in
Japan.
Jonas Kaufmann completed his musical studies in his native Munich
and he began his professional career at Staatstheater Saarbrücken
in 1994 and was soon invited to make debuts in important German
theatres such as the Stuttgart Opera, Hamburg State Opera as well
as international debuts at the Chicago Lyric Opera Paris Opera
and La Scala.