Jonas Kaufmann - The Tenor (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Rigoletto, Atto III, Canzone: "La donna è mobile"
02. Manon Lescaut, Atto I: "Donna non vidi mai"
03. Tosca, Atto I: "Recondita armonia"
04. La Bohème Atto I: "O soave fanciulla"
05. Turandot, Atto III: "Nessun Dorma"
06. Carmen, Acte II: "Je le veux, Carmen... La fleur que tu m'avais jetée"
07. Werther, Acte III: "Traduire... Ah! bien souvent...Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps?"
08. Torna a Surriento
09. Voglio vivere così
10. Mattinata
11. Volare
12. Parla più piano
13. Non ti scordar di me
14. Musica proibita
15. Rondine al nido
16. Catari', Catari' (Core 'ngrato)
17. Caruso
18. Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4 (Brahms Lullaby)

“The world’s greatest tenor” – at any given moment, across the history of opera and classical singing, those would have been fighting words. Today, it seems only logical that London’s The Telegraph would use them to describe Jonas Kaufmann.

In a sense, he is the latest in a mighty legacy of superstar operatic tenors, from Enrico Caruso to Lauritz Melchior to Luciano Pavarotti. For well over a decade, Kaufmann has been the first choice of the world’s great opera houses – the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opéra, Bavarian State Opera and the companies at Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Covent Garden in London, among others. His riveting presence and charismatic performances sell out and are the highlights of each operatic season. Among his many triumphs are the tenor heroes and antiheroes of Aida, Carmen, Cavalleria rusticana, Don Carlo, La fanciulla del West, La forza del destino, Lohengrin, Otello, Pagliacci, Parsifal, Peter Grimes, Tosca, Die tote Stadt, Werther and Die Walküre. “Cameragenic” and with an inimitable voice as powerful as it is nuanced and lyrically appealing – the New York Times has praised his “clarion top notes, the blend of virility and tenderness in his singing” – Kaufmann has emerged as the most distinctive and revelatory tenor of his time. Vocally and theatrically, he refines the standards in everything he performs on the operatic and concert stages. His recordings encompass opera, lieder and popular song, and they sell as reliably as they impress critics. In addition to opera and recital performances, Kaufmann has headlined major concert events around the world for even broader audiences, including the Last Night of the Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2015 and the Summer Night Concert in the park of Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace in 2020.

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