Blu-Ray Video, Sony (label)
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), Rúni Brattaberg (Titurel), Maria Zifchak (Stimme)
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Daniele Gatti, Francois Girard (dir.)
Kaufmann is the Parsifal we've all been waiting for...Matching his agonies are those of Peter Mattei's Amfortas and Katarina Dalayman's lustrous, secure Kundry, while the relaxed, minimal gestures... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Opéra
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Thielemann’s symphonic credentials pay dividends in the grander pieces, his overview lending a structural breadth to such familiar fare as The Blue Danube, which took on the trappings of a symphonic... — More…
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Vittorio Grigolo (Hoffmann), Kate Lindsey (Nicklausse/Muse), Christine Rice (Giulietta), Sonya Yoncheva (Antonia), Sofia Fomina (Olympia), Thomas Hampson Coppélius/Dapertutto/Lindorf/Miracle)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Opera Chorus, Evelino Pidò (conductor) & John Schlesinger...
Sofia Fomina trills like a canary as the mechanical doll, Christine Rice is darkly beguiling as Giulietta and Sonya Yoncheva’s Antonia would melt a heart of stone. Kate Lindsey’s Nicklausse... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2017
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Here is music and music-making in which elegance, dash and lightness of spirit sit side by side with pools of emotional quiet which can haunt the mind for days to come. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Carlo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Matti Salminen (Filippo II), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Il Grande Inquisitore), Robert Lloyd (Un frate)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio Pappano, Peter Stein
With Antonio Pappano in the pit, Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros brought to their interpretations of the leading roles rapturous arcs of phrasing and refulgence of tone that we have not heard... — More…
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Mein Wien
Concert Film & Documentary
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Rachel Willis-Sorensen (soprano), Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Jochen Rieder
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Sommernachtskonzert 2020 / Summer Night Concert 2020
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Wiener Philharmoniker, Valéry Gergiev
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This is a concert that grows to greatness…Never has a programme built to its own private apotheosis as surely as this, with lofty yet almost unbearably moving accounts of the Emperor Waltz and... — More…
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