Married to the mob
Contrasting approaches to Regie duke it out in Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci and Rusalka in Munich
Jonas Kaufmann
159 pieces since 2008 — in 32 roles, at 19 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
159
pieces
32
roles
19
companies
19
years
By role
Parsifal 6
Werther 5
Siegmund 5
Cavaradossi 5
Tristan 4
Lohengrin 3
Faust 3
Don José 3
des Grieux 2
Dick Johnson 2
Don Carlos 2
Canio 2
Calaf 2
Alfredo 2
Maurizio 2
Mario Cavaradossi 2
Ramerrez 1
Radames 1
Rodolfo 1
Nikolios 1
Florestan 1
Manrico 1
Idomeneo 1
Huon 1
Florestano 1
Enzo 1
Don Alvaro 1
Chénier 1
Carlo 1
Bacchus 1
Alvaro 1
Alfredo Germont 1
By company
Metropolitan Opera 19
Bayerische Staatsoper 4
Royal Opera House 4
Salzburg Festival 3
Salzburg Easter Festival 3
Bavarian State Opera 2
Wiener Staatsoper 2
Vienna State Opera 2
La Scala 2
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie 2
Zurich Opera 1
Teatro Real 1
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1
Paris Opera 1
New York Philharmonic 1
Mariinsky Theatre 1
Carnegie Hall 1
Bregenzer Festspiele 1
Boston Symphony Orchestra 1
4 pieces as Bayerische Staatsoper — stats above show all coverage for Jonas Kaufmann.
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War! What is it good for?
The crown jewel of this year’s Munich Festival is undoubtedly Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which opened the Festival on June 29 and will close the Festival with an “Opera for All” screening on July 31.
Cross purposes
“Has anyone ever seen a truly great production of this opera?”
Mostly armorless
I’d never actually seen a production of Lohengrin before I agreed to review a new Decca DVD of Richard Jones‘s staging for the Bayerische Staastoper, starring Jonas Kaufmann, so I hope I’ve got this right: It’s about this architect named Elsa, who lives in an Orwellian steampunk Germany that has videocamera technology but still dresses like […]
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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