Jonas Kaufmann
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Born | Munich, West Germany | 10 July 1969
Occupation | Opera singer (tenor) |
Years active | 1994–present |
Children | 4 |
Jonas Kaufmann (born 10 July 1969) is a German operatic tenor. He is best known for his performances in spinto roles such as Don José in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, and the title role in Don Carlos. He has also sung leading tenor roles in the operas of Richard Wagner in Germany and abroad, most notably at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.[1] He is also an accomplished Lieder singer.[2][3] In 2014 The New York Times described Kaufmann as "a box-office draw, and... the most important, versatile tenor of his generation."[4]
Early life and education
Kaufmann was born in Munich. His father worked for an insurance company, and his mother was a kindergarten teacher. He had one older sister. He started studying piano when he was eight, and he sang in his elementary school choir. Although he studied for mathematics entrance exams, in the summer of 1989 he began his vocal training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. While he was studying, he sang some small roles at the Bavarian State Opera. He graduated from university in 1994, achieving distinctions in both opera and concert performances.[5]
In 1995, after a vocal crisis, Kaufmann received help from American baritone Michael Rhodes, who taught him a "new way of singing" and how to become "more relaxed in my voice and in myself."[6] In Kaufmann's book Meinen die wirklich mich? he said, "To find a Michael Rhodes that can really help you and bring you to success is really a great stroke of luck."[7]
Career
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He began his professional career at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken in 1994[8] and was soon invited to make debuts in German theaters such as the Stuttgart Opera and Hamburg State Opera, as well as international debuts at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra National de Paris, and La Scala. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1999 in a new production of Busoni's Doktor Faust and returned there in 2003 as Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail and for concerts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic.
He performed the role of Don José in Bizet's Carmen, to critical acclaim, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2006/7. He made his debut as Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera alongside Angela Gheorghiu in 2006, also to critical acclaim,[9] and also sang the role at the Met in 2007 and 2008, and at the Royal Opera House in 2008. In May 2008, he played Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca at Covent Garden, yet again to critical acclaim.[10]
In 2008/9, he performed in Massenet's Manon in Chicago opposite Natalie Dessay and in the title role of a new production of Wagner's Lohengrin at the Bavarian State Opera. He also sang Lohengrin on the opening night of the Bayreuth Festival in 2010, in a production staged by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Andris Nelsons.
His debut recording with Decca, Romantic Arias, was released in January 2008. He has also recorded a Schubert song cycle on the same label and the role of Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly for EMI.
In January 2010, he took the title role in Massenet's Werther at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. The performance was recorded and released on DVD in November 2010.
In April 2011, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Siegmund in Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's Die Walküre.[11] In September 2011, he underwent surgery to remove a lymph node from his chest.[12][13][14] In December, he was back, performing the title role in Gounod's Faust.[11]
On February 15, 2013, Kaufmann made his first appearance in the title role of Wagner's Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera. His performance received rave reviews from critics.[15] In July of that year he was named a Kammersänger of the Bavarian State Opera by the Bavarian Ministry of Arts. In December he sang the role of Don Alvaro in Verdi's La forza del destino with the company.[16]
In February 2014, Kaufmann sang the title role in Massenet's Werther at the Met. He followed this by touring with Schubert's song cycle Winterreise with Helmut Deutsch.[2] In June 2014, he made his debut in the role of Des Grieux in Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Royal Opera House in London.[17] That November he sang the same role in another production of Manon Lescaut at the Bavarian State Opera.[18]
On September 12, 2015, Kaufmann became the first German singer to perform the British national anthem "Rule, Britannia!" at the Last Night of The Proms.[19]
On February 23, 2016, the documentary Jonas Kaufmann: An Evening with Puccini was released in selected theaters in the United States. The film centered around Kaufmann's 2015 performance at La Scala in Milan and featured rare archive footage.[20][needs update]
In 2018, Kaufmann made his debut as Tristan in concert performances of the second act of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.[21]
Personal life
Kaufmann has been married twice. His first marriage to mezzo-soprano Margarete Joswig produced three children, and ended in divorce.[22][23] His second marriage is to the opera director Christiane Lutz.[24] The couple married in late 2018,[25][26] and have a child, born in March 2019.[27]
Discography
Audio
Year | Album | Credits | Peak positions | |||||||||||
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GER [28] |
AUT [29] |
BEL [30] |
FRA [31] |
SPN | SWI [32] |
UK | ||||||||
2001 | Der Vampyr | Jonas Kaufmann / Franz Hawlata / Regina Klepper / Anke Hoffmann / Markus Marquardt / Thomas Dewald / Yoo-Chang Nah / WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln & Helmuth Froschauer | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
2006 | Strauss Lieder | Jonas Kaufmann / Piano Helmut Deutsch | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
2008 | Romantic Arias | Jonas Kaufmann / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra / Marco Armiliato | 31 | – | – | 148 | – | – | – | |||||
2008 | Puccini: Madama Butterfly | Angela Gheorghiu / Jonas Kaufmann / Enkeleida Shkosa / Fabio Capitanucci / Orchestra e Coro dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma / Antonio Pappano | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
2009 | Sehnsucht | Jonas Kaufmann / Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Claudio Abbado | 48 | – | – | 119 | – | – | – | |||||
2010 | Schubert – Die schöne Müllerin | Jonas Kaufmann | – | – | – | 133 | – | – | – | |||||
Verismo Arias | Jonas Kaufmann | 51 | – | – | 68 | – | – | – | ||||||
2011 | Die Superstars der Klassik – Singen die schönsten Opernarien | Erwin Schrott / Anna Netrebko / Jonas Kaufmann | 34 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
2012 | Königskinder – Engelbert Humperdinck | Jonas Kaufmann / Isabel Rey | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
2013 | Wagner | Kaufmann / Runnicles / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin | 43 | 30 | 99 | 76 | – | – | – | |||||
Verdi Requiem | Anja Harteros / Elīna Garanča / Jonas Kaufmann / René Pape / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala / Daniel Barenboim | 37 | 51 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||
Best of | Jonas Kaufmann | – | – | 148 | – | – | – | – | ||||||
Jonas Kaufmann | Jonas Kaufmann | – | 59 | – | 145 | – | – | – | ||||||
The Verdi Album | Jonas Kaufmann | 16 | 7 | 120 | 53 | 58 | 55 | 100 | ||||||
2014 | Winterreise | Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch | 38 | 22 | 111 | 87 | 1 | 73 | – | |||||
Du bist die Welt für mich | Jonas Kaufmann, Julia Kleiter (soprano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conductor: Jochen Rieder | 11 | 9 | – | 84 | – | 55 | – | ||||||
2015 | The Age of Puccini | Jonas Kaufmann | – | 56 | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
Nessun Dorma – The Puccini Album | Jonas Kaufmann | 10 | 8 | 161 | 23 | – | 26 | 22 | ||||||
Aida | Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Ludovic Tézier, Erwin Schrott, Antonio Pappano & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | 55 | 74 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||
2016 | Dolce Vita | Jonas Kaufmann | 7 | 7 [33] |
42 | 38 | 37 [34] |
26 | – | |||||
2017 | Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde | Jonas Kaufmann | 26 | 43 | 136 | 122 | 78 [35] |
88 | – | |||||
L'Opéra | Jonas Kaufmann | 26 | 13 | 102 | 56 [36] |
51 [37] |
50 | – | ||||||
2018 | Eine italienische Nacht – Live aus der Waldbühne Berlin | Jonas Kaufmann | 29 | 36 [38] |
– | – | 88 [39] |
– | – | |||||
2019 | Wien[40] | Jonas Kaufmann, Vienna Philharmonic and Ádám Fischer | 10 | 2 | 131 | 130 [41] |
76 [42] |
34 | 2[43] | |||||
"–" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
DVDs
- 2002: Monteverdi – Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Jonas Kaufmann / Vesselina Kasarova / Dietrich Henschel / Isabel Rey)
- 2002: Paisiello – Nina (Jonas Kaufmann / Cecilia Bartoli / László Polgár)
- 2004: Beethoven – Fidelio (Jonas Kaufmann / Camilla Nylund / László Polgár / Alfred Muff / Elizabeth Magnuson / Christoph Strehl)
- 2005: Mozart – La clemenza di Tito (Jonas Kaufmann / Vesselina Kasarova / Eva Mei / Malin Hartelius)
- 2006: Bizet – Carmen (Jonas Kaufmann / Anna Caterina Antonacci / Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Norah Amsellem)
- 2006: Schubert – Fierrabras (Jonas Kaufmann / Juliane Banse / Michael Volle / Christoph Strehl / László Polgár)
- 2008: Bizet – Carmen (Jonas Kaufmann / Vesselina Kasarova / Isabel Rey / Michele Pertusi)
- 2009: R. Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier (Renée Fleming / Sophie Koch / Diana Damrau / Franz Hawlata / Jonas Kaufmann)
- 2009: Wagner – Lohengrin (Jonas Kaufmann / Anja Harteros / Wolfgang Koch / Michaela Schuster / Christof Fischesser / Evgeny Nikitin)
- 2010: Massenet – Werther (Jonas Kaufmann / Sophie Koch / Michel Plasson)
- 2010: Humperdinck – Königskinder (Jonas Kaufmann / Isabel Rey / Oilver Widmer / Liliana Nikiteanu)
- 2010: Cilea – Adriana Lecouvreur (Jonas Kaufmann / Angela Gheorghiu / Olga Borodina / Alessandro Corbelli)
- 2011: Puccini – Tosca (Jonas Kaufmann / Emily Magee / Thomas Hampson)
- 2011: Wagner – Die Walküre (Jonas Kaufmann / Eva-Maria Westbroek / Deborah Voigt / Bryn Terfel)
- 2011: Gounod – Faust (Jonas Kaufmann / Marina Poplavskaya / René Pape
- 2011: Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen (Jonas Kaufmann / Bryn Terfel / Deborah Voigt / Jay Hunter Morris / Eva-Maria Westbroek)
- 2012: R.Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos (Jonas Kaufmann / Emily Magee / Elena Moșuc / Peter Matić / Cornelius Obonya)
- 2012: Puccini – Tosca (Angela Gheorghiu / Jonas Kaufmann / Bryn Terfel / Antonio Pappano)
- 2012: Verdi – Requiem (Jonas Kaufmann / Anja Harteros / Elīna Garanča / René Pape)
- 2013: Wagner – Parsifal (Jonas Kaufmann / René Pape / Peter Mattei / Katarina Dalayman / Evgeny Nikitin / Daniele Gatti / François Girard)
- 2013: Puccini – La fanciulla del West (Jonas Kaufmann / Nina Stemme / Tomasz Konieczny)
- 2013: Verdi – Don Carlo (Jonas Kaufmann / Anja Harteros / Matti Salminen / Thomas Hampson / Ekaterina Semenchuk)
- 2014: Puccini – Manon Lescaut (Jonas Kaufmann / Kristine Opolais)
- 2015: Mascagni – Cavalleria rusticana (Jonas Kaufmann / Liudmyla Monastyrska) & Leoncavallo – Pagliacci (Jonas Kaufmann / Maria Agresta)
Repertoire
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Kaufmann's repertoire includes the following:
- Abert: Ekkehard – title role[44]
- Beethoven: Fidelio – Florestan, Jaquino[45]
- Berlioz: La damnation de Faust – Faust[46]
- Bizet: Carmen – Don José[11]
- Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur – Maurizio[47]
- Gounod: Faust – title role[11]
- Giordano: Andrea Chénier – title role
- Humperdinck: Königskinder – Königssohn[48]
- Leoncavallo: Pagliacci – Canio[49]
- Loewe: Die drei Wünsche – Hassan[44]
- Marschner: Der Vampyr - Sir Edgar Aubry
- Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana – Turiddu[49]
- Massenet: Manon – Des Grieux[50]
- Massenet: Werther – title role[50]
- Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria – Telemaco[51]
- Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea – Nerone[45]
- Mozart: Così fan tutte – Ferrando[45]
- Mozart: Die Zauberflöte – Tamino[11]
- Mozart: Idomeneo – title role[48]
- Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Belmonte[48]
- Mozart: La clemenza di Tito – Tito[45]
- Paer: Leonora – Florestano[52]
- Paisiello: Nina, o sia La pazza per amore – Lindoro[53]
- Puccini: La rondine – Ruggero[54]
- Puccini: La bohème – Rodolfo[55]
- Puccini: Tosca – Cavaradossi[50]
- Puccini: Manon Lescaut – des Grieux[56]
- Puccini: La fanciulla del West – Dick Johnson
- Puccini: Madama Butterfly – Pinkerton
- Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia – Almaviva[57]
- Schubert: Fierrabras – title role[48]
- Marc Schubring: Cyrano de Bergerac – Christian[58]
- Smetana: The Bartered Bride – Hans
- Strauss: Capriccio – Flamand[54]
- Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos – Tenor/Bacchus[55]
- Szymanowski: King Roger – Edresi[59]
- Thomas: Mignon – Wilhelm[60]
- Verdi: Falstaff – Fenton[61]
- Verdi: La traviata – Alfredo[11]
- Verdi: Otello – Otello, Cassio[50]
- Verdi: I masnadieri – Carlo[62]
- Verdi: Rigoletto – Duca[48]
- Verdi: Don Carlos – title role[45]
- Verdi: Il trovatore – Manrico[63]
- Verdi: Aida – Radames[64]
- Wagner: Tannhäuser – Walther[65]
- Wagner: Parsifal – title role[45]
- Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Walther[54]
- Wagner: Die Walküre – Siegmund[11]
- Wagner: Lohengrin – title role[66]
Awards
- 2007: Gramophone Award for Richard Strauss Lieder, with Helmut Deutsch, piano
- 2011: Gramophone Award for Verismo Arias. Antonio Pappano conducting
- 2012: Gramophone Award for Fidelio, Claudio Abbado conducting
- 2013: Opera Award for Best Male Opera Singer[67]
- 2013: Gramophone Award for Wagner Arias, Donald Runnicles conducting
- 2018: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art[68]
Literature
- Thomas Voigt: Jonas Kaufmann: In Conversation With. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017, ISBN 978-1474604277.
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Further reading
- Pasles, Chris (14 March 2011). "Tenor puts best face forward". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. p. 28. Retrieved 22 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- Ashley, Tim (28 November 2002). "'l don't mind my sexy image'". The Guardian. London. p. 46. Retrieved 22 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
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- Official website
- Jonas Kaufmann on bach-cantatas
- Marie d'Origny (26 April 2012). "The Tenor on Stage: An Interview with Jonas Kaufmann". The New York Review of Books (includes a video of his 1998 performance in Così fan tutte at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan)
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Munich
- German operatic tenors
- 20th-century German opera singers
- 21st-century German opera singers
- Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 20th-century male singers
- 21st-century male singers