Jonas Kaufmann

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Jonas Kaufmann, La Scala 2015

Jonas Kaufmann (born July 10, 1969 in Munich ) is a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Studies and career

Jonas Kaufmann, Waldbühne Berlin, 2018

Jonas Kaufmann grew up with his older sister in Munich. After a few semesters of mathematics, he completed a course of studies, begun in 1989, at the Munich University of Music and Theater in 1994 with an exam as an opera and concert singer. Kaufmann then started at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken, where he worked from 1994 to 1996 and took over roles in the lyrical repertoire.

After this engagement he became freelance and has since worked at the opera stages Opéra National de Paris , La Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Salzburg Festival , Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera House London, Vienna State Opera , Deutsche Oper Berlin mainly in the lyrical, increasingly also in the youthful heroic subject. He is particularly connected to the opera houses in Zurich and Stuttgart .

In the 2006/2007 season he sang Don José in Bizet's Carmen at the Royal Opera House in London . In 2006 he sang Alfredo in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera. His role debut as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca took place in May 2008 at the Royal Opera House in London.

His debut at the Bayreuth Festival was the title role in Wagner's Lohengrin in the production of Hans Neuenfels , conducted by Andris Nelsons on July 25, 2010 , after he was named Singer of the Year in the same role at the Bavarian State Opera in 2009, just like Anja Harteros as Elsa.

In addition to his operatic work, he also appears as a concert singer. He works with the accompanist Helmut Deutsch at song recitals .

In 2007, Kaufmann signed an exclusive contract with the DECCA (Universal Music) record company. His debut album Romantic Arias was released in 2008. On May 22, 2009, the second album Sehnsucht with a German repertoire was released. On September 13, 2013, the first album, The Verdi Album, was released by Sony Classical, with which Kaufmann has signed a long-term exclusive contract.

In June 2014 Kaufmann made his debut in the role of Chevalier Des Grieux in Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut at the Royal Opera House in London alongside Kristīne Opolais as Manon. In November 2014, Kaufmann took on the same role in another production at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

At the side of Anja Harteros , he made his role debut in the spring of 2015 in the title role of Radamès in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida . On September 12 of the same year he performed at the Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall , where he sang " Nessun dorma ", among other things . At the same time his Puccini album was released, which was his most successful album to date and reached number 22 in the charts, especially in Great Britain.

Recovered from a disease of the vocal cords that put him out of action for several months in 2016, Jonas Kaufmann made his comeback on January 18, 2017 at the Lohengrin premiere at the Opéra National de Paris. He then took on the title role in the opera Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano at the Bavarian State Opera , which premiered on March 12, 2017. He was accompanied by Anja Harteros (in her debut as Maddalena) and Luca Salsi (as Carlo Gérard ).

Kaufmann lived with his family near Munich. His divorced marriage with the singer Margarete Joswig has three children. His second wife is the director Christiane Lutz .

Honors

  • 2007 Gramophone Award 2007, Strauss-Lieder, CD
  • 2008 Grands prix internationaux du disque, Diapason d'or , Romantic Arias, CD
  • 2008 Qobus / Classica: Le meilleur disque de 2008, Romantic Arias, CD
  • 2009 Gramophone Award 2009, Madame Butterfly, CD
  • 2009 Prix Caecilia 2009, Longing, CD
  • 2009 Diapason d'or 2009, Romantic Arias, CD
  • 2010 ECHO Klassik “Best Singer of the Year” for the recording Sehnsucht
  • 2010 Orphée d'or “Wolfgang Wagner” 2010, Sehnsucht, CD
  • 2010 Diapason d'or 2010, Die Schöne Müllerin, CD
  • 2010 Diapason d'or 2010, Verismo Arias, CD
  • 2011 Gramophone Award 2011, Verismo Arias, CD
  • 2011 Diapason d'or 2011, Werther, DVD
  • 2012 Medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe
  • 2012 Gramophone Award 2012, Fidelio , CD
  • 2013 International Opera Award : Opera Magazine Readers Award
  • 2013 International Opera Awards: The Male Singer of the Year Award
  • 2013 The Golden Germany
  • 2013 Bayerischer Kammersänger - awarded following the performance of Il trovatore on July 8, 2013
  • 2013 ECHO Klassik “Singer of the Year” for the recording Kaufmann Wagner
  • 2013 ECHO Klassik “Opera recording of the year” (19th century): Mariinsky Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, Wagner: Die Walküre
  • 2013 ECHO Klassik “Music DVD Production of the Year”: Robert Lepage / Deutsche Grammophon, Der Ring des Nibelungen
  • 2013 Gramophone Award 2013, Wagner, CD
  • 2014 gold record for the Verdi album; awarded at the end of the Winterreise song evening in Graz on April 4, 2014
  • 2014 ECHO Klassik "Soloistic recording of the year / vocals" (The Verdi Album)
  • 2014 Gramophone Classical Music Award 2014 Solo Vocal (Schubert - Winterreise, Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch)
  • 2014 Bambi in the category "classical music"
  • 2015 International Opera Award
  • 2015 ECHO Klassik “Singer of the Year” for the recording You are the world for me
  • 2015 Premio Puccini 2015
  • 2016 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2016 ECHO Klassik "Bestseller of the year" for the Puccini album Nessun Dorma
  • 2016 annual prize for the studio recording of Aida (2015) at the German Record Critics' Prize
  • 2017 ECHO Klassik “bestseller of the year” for the album Dolce Vita
  • 2018 Officier de l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
  • 2018 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  • 2019 Golden City Hall Man of the City of Vienna
  • 2020 Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Music , awarded by Prince Charles

Games (selection)

Don José in Carmen , Salzburg Festival 2012, with Magdalena Kožená
As Paul in Die tote Stadt with Marlis Petersen as Marietta, Bayerische Staatsoper , 2019

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
2008 Romantic arias DE31 (10 weeks)
DE 		- - -
with The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Arias by Puccini , Bizet , Flotow , Verdi and others
2009 nostalgia DE48 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - -
2010 Verismo Arias DE51 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
with Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Arias and scenes by Leoncavallo , Giordano and others
2011 The superstars of classical music -
sing the most beautiful opera arias 		DE34 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT1 (9 weeks)
AT 		- -
2012 The Ring of the Nibelung DE66 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
Video album
with Terfel, Erdmann, Voigt and Blythe
2013 wagner DE43 (1 week)
DE 		AT30 (1 week)
AT 		- -
Verdi Requiem DE37 (1 week)
DE 		AT51 (1 week)
AT 		- -
Jonas Kaufmann - AT59 (1 week)
AT 		- -
The Verdi album DE16 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT7th
gold
gold

(14 weeks)AT 		CH55 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK100 (1 week)
UK
2014 Schubert: Winter Journey DE38 (1 week)
DE 		AT22 (1 week)
AT 		CH73 (1 week)
CH 		-
Parsifal ( Metropolitan Opera ) DE49 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
Don Carlo DE52 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
It's Me - Opera Arias DE56 (1 week)
DE 		AT75 (1 week)
AT 		- -
You are the world to me DE11
gold
gold

(24 weeks)DE 		AT9
platinum
platinum

(27 weeks)AT 		CH55 (2 weeks)
CH 		-
2015 The Age of Puccini - AT56 (1 week)
AT 		- -
Nessun dorma - The Puccini Album DE10 (20 weeks)
DE 		AT8th
gold
gold

(16 weeks)AT 		CH26 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK22 (2 weeks)
UK
Aida DE55 (1 week)
DE 		AT74 (1 week)
AT 		- -
Studio recording
with Anja Harteros , Ekaterina Semenchuk,
Ludovic Tézier , Erwin Schrott , Antonio Pappano ,
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Warner Classics)
2016 Dolce Vita DE7 (17 weeks)
DE 		AT7th
gold
gold

(12 weeks)AT 		CH26 (3 weeks)
CH 		-
2017 Mahler: The Song of the Earth - AT43 (1 week)
AT 		CH88 (1 week)
CH 		-
L'Opéra DE26 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH50 (1 week)
CH 		-
2018 An Italian Night - Live from the Waldbühne Berlin DE29 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT36 (5 weeks)
AT 		- -
2019 Vienna DE10 (... wk.)
Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminary / 2019DE 		AT2 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminary / 2019AT 		CH34 (2 weeks)
CH 		-
2020 Verdi: Otello DE30 (1 week)
DE 		AT24 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH34 (1 week)
CH 		-
with Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

More albums

  • 2000: Ekkehard by Johann Joseph Abert, live recording Herbstliche Musiktage Bad Urach under Peter Falk 1998
  • 2005: Oberon under John Eliot Gardiner
  • 2005: Die Königskinder , live recording Montpellier 2005
  • 2006: Strauss songs
  • 2008: Madame Butterfly , studio recording with Angela Gheorghiu
  • 2009: Die Schöne Müllerin , song cycle by Schubert
  • 2011: Fidelio , live recording of the Lucerne Festival 2010
  • 2012: Carmen with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Simon Rattle
  • 2013: Die Walküre by Richard Wagner, concert recording under Valery Gergiev
  • 2013: Jonas Kaufmann, arias from various operas and a song by Richard Strauss
  • 2013: Verdi Requiem, live recording: Barenboim, Harteros, Garanča, Kaufmann, Pape, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
  • 2014: Winterreise , song cycle by Franz Schubert

Video albums

  • 2002 In Nina von Paisiello as Count with Cecilia Bertoli (Zurich Opera House)
  • 2003 In Ritorno d'Ulisse von Monteverdi as Telemaco with Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Zurich Opera House)
  • 2004 In Fidelio as Florestan with Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Zurich Opera House)
  • 2005 In La Clemenza di Tito by WA Mozart as Tito with Franz Welser-Möst (Zurich Opera House)
  • 2007 In Fierrabras as Fierrabras (Zurich Opera House)
  • 2008 In Carmen as Don José with Anna Caterina Antonacci as Carmen (Royal Opera House)
  • 2009 In Der Rosenkavalier as an Italian singer a. a. with Renée Fleming and Diana Damrau (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden)
  • 2010 Im Lohengrin as Lohengrin with Anja Harteros as Elsa (Bavarian State Opera)
  • 2010 Im Werther as Werther with Sophie Koch as Charlotte and Ludovic Tézier as Albert (Opéra National de Paris)
  • 2011 In Tosca as Cavaradossi with Emily Magee and Thomas Hampson (Zurich Opera)
  • 2012 In Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio with Angela Gheorghiu (Royal Opera House, London)
  • 2012 In Königskinder as king's son with Isabel Rey as goose girl (Zurich Opera House)
  • 2012 In Tosca as Cavaradossi with Angela Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel (Royal Opera House, London)
  • 2012 In Die Walküre as Siegmund under James Levine (Metropolitan Opera New York)
  • 2013 Verdi Requiem, live recording: Barenboim, Harteros, Garanča, Kaufmann, Pape, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
  • 2013 Wagner (birthday concert on May 21, 2013), Jonas Kaufmann, Christian Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden
  • 2014 In Parsifal as Parsifal with René Pape , Peter Mattei, Katarina Dalayman , Evgeny Nikitin under Daniele Gatti (Metropolitan Opera New York)
  • 2014 In Faust (Gounod) as Faust with Marina Poplavskaya and René Pape under Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Metropolitan Opera New York)
  • 2014 In Don Carlo (five act Italian version) as Don Carlo with Anja Harteros, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Thomas Hampson and Matti Salminen under Antonio Pappano ( Salzburg Festival 2013)
  • 2014 In Ariadne auf Naxos as Bacchus with Emily Magee , Elena Moșuc and others under Daniel Harding (Salzburg Festival 2012)
  • 2014 In Carmen as Don José with Vesselina Kasarova, Isabel Rey, Michele Pertusi and others under Franz Welser-Möst (Zurich Opera House 2008)
  • 2014 Jonas Kaufmann - You are the world for me , Live in Berlin, Berliner Funkhaus Nalepastraße, January 2014, with Julia Kleiter (soprano), Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the direction of Jochen Rieder
  • 2015 In Puccini: Manon Lescaut as Des Grieux with Kristīne Opolais under Antonio Pappano (Covent Garden Opera, London)
  • 2015 Jonas Kaufmann - An Evening with Puccini , Filarmonica della Scala, Jochen Rieder
  • 2015 In Puccini: La fanciulla del West as Dick Johnson (alias Ramerrez) with Nina Stemme under Franz Welser-Möst (Vienna State Opera)
  • 2016 In Verdi: La forza del destino as Don Alvaro with Anja Harteros , Ludovic Tézier , Nadia Krasteva, Vitalij Kowaljow and others under Asher Fisch (Bavarian State Opera)
  • 2016 In Leoncavallo: Pagliacci as Canio and in Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana as Turiddu under Christian Thielemann (Salzburg Easter Festival 2015)
  • 2016 In Fidelio as Florestan under Franz Welser-Möst (Salzburg Festival 2015)
  • 2016 In Giordano: Andrea Chenier as Andrea Chenier under Antonio Pappano (Royal Opera House Covent Garden 2015)
  • 2018 An Italian Night - Jonas Kaufmann , with Anita Rachvelishvili , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Jochen Rieder, live from the Waldbühne Berlin

literature

Web links

Commons : Jonas Kaufmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Jonas Kaufmann - Munzinger biography. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Andrew Clements: Manon Lescaut review - Kaufmann's singing is exceptional. In: The Guardian , June 18, 2014 (English).
  3. ^ Bernhard Neuhoff: Triumph for Jonas Kaufmann, Manon Lescaut at the Bavarian State Opera. ( Memento from November 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayerischer Rundfunk , November 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Manuel Brug: Advance into the absolute premier class. , In: Die Welt , January 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ Premiere review Andrea Chenier at www.br-klassik.de. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Jonas Kaufmann experiences new love "like a bolt of lightning" . In: The press . June 8, 2016 ( diepresse.com [accessed February 25, 2017]).
  7. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento from August 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 6, 2013
  8. ↑ The fight for the golden deer ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), rbb-online.de - Bambi Awards 2014, accessed on April 18, 2018
  9. ↑ Live from ECHO Klassik 2015 by Crescendo (video), accessed on August 10, 2018
  10. ↑ ECHO Klassik 2016 “Bestseller of the Year”, accessed on October 9, 2016
  11. ↑ Distinction for Jonas Kaufmann: The tenor is now an officer of the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” . Article dated June 25, 2018, accessed June 26, 2018.
  12. ^ Goldener Rathausmann for Jonas Kaufmann. October 15, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  13. ^ Tenor Jonas Kaufmann now an honorary doctorate at the Royal College of Music. In: SWR March 2, 5, 2020, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Chart sources: Albums DE AT CH UK
  15. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE AT
  16. ↑ Work data on Ekkehard based on the MGG with discography in Operone
personal data
SURNAME Merchant, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Bavaria , Germany