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Kaufmann on the mend

The prognosis from Jonas Kaufmann‘s surgery seems to be very positive indeed: the tenor and his family were spotted Saturday enjoying the Oktoberfest in Munich. Details after the jump. Read more »

Where’s Jonas?

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Tales of the Bizarro Met

bizarro_worldFar over on the Upper West Side of Manhattan exists an amazing marvel of the cosmos… the Metropolitan Opera. It is where the opera Tosca is being “prepared” for performance only few days from now.   Read more »

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Belle “poitrine”

Coming up at 2:30, the webcast of Werther from the Opéra Bastille featuring Jonas Kaufmann. [ARTE Live Web]

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Peak performance

On this upcoming otherwise dreary Tuesday afternoon, La Cieca hopes the cher public will all be figuratively glued to their PCs and Macs for a live web telecast of Werther from the Opéra-Bastille.

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The smooth and the rough

Snippet from yesterday’s Carmen telecast.

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Knight und Träume

Jonas Kaufmann in his role debut(!) as Lohengrin. This is a great, great artist.

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Jonas, brother!

Wow, but he does this well! [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/mYg9IvjVmds" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

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