Here’s a set of comments that I think really captures the duality of YouTube — two criticisms of Jonas Kaufmann. I won’t say which I personally find more valid!
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Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann will sing (with each other!) Puccini’s Turandot at the 2021 Salzburg Festival.
By La Cieca
A heady audience paid top price to pack Carnegie Hall Thursday for just 80 minutes of unstaged Wagner.
Either venomous fishwife Norman Lebrecht has deliberately misquoted and misinterpreted what Jonas Kaufmann said in a recent interview, or else Jonas Kaufmann needs to go fuck himself.
By La Cieca
In November, everyone wanted to hear more about Jonas Kaufmann‘s Johnson.
By La Cieca
The debate over live transmissions of opera to cinemas in HD isn’t going to go away.
By armerjaquino
We leave behind the Vienna of the 1740s, the time of breeches, fans and white wigs.
By Porgy Amor
The Bayerische Staatsoper just announced, in addition to their usual bounty of webcasts, two special presentations: a repeat of Semiramide and a live telecast of Andrea Chenier.
By La Cieca
Kaufmann conveys Lohengrin’s immense loneliness in a profoundly moving way. I am happy to report that vocally he sounds completely recovered.
“Jonas Kaufmann est contraint de se retirer de la production des Contes d’Hoffmann à l’Opéra Bastille.”
By La Cieca
“Has anyone ever seen a truly great production of this opera?”
By Porgy Amor
It took the better part of a decade—including two high-profile cancelations—or New York to finally hear Anna Netrebko in recital.
A woman reads from the Bible. There is a dance scene in a tavern. The discovery of blood gives away the protagonist.
By Porgy Amor
From the Met: “Jonas Kaufmann has canceled his performances in this season’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut due to illness.”
By La Cieca
La Cieca’s familiar spirits have been turning their generally steely eyes to the Future Met Wiki, attempting in vain to make sense of impending repertoire and casting at Casa Gelb.
By La Cieca
Another season opens this weekend, the much-admired series of livestreams from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
By La Cieca
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.
By La Cieca
Far 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.
By La Cieca
Coming up at 2:30, the webcast of Werther from the Opéra Bastille featuring Jonas Kaufmann. [ARTE Live Web]
By La Cieca
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.
By La Cieca
Snippet from yesterday’s Carmen telecast.
By La Cieca
