With 50 years of Jonas can look a businessman to a terrific career. The Tenor, delighted his audience with appearances at the most prestigious Opera and concert stages of the world. An end is not in sight.
Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” at the Royal Opera House in London, March 2019: Jonas Kaufmann sings the role of Don Alvaro. In one scene, he storms the stage and sings Leonora, played by Anna Netrebko, with the words “My beautiful angel… when I hold you in my arms, will delight the world.”
The world has delighted in fact, to Jonas’s fame and glory purchase. The singer has brains and Charisma – and, above all, a tenor voice that goes straight to the heart.
In the hope to rip something””
10. July will be 50. Birthday in over 200 movie theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are appreciated. Shown is a recording of the appearance “of An Italian night was recorded Live from the stage of the forest”, the last year in Berlin with great enthusiasm. Two days after his his birthday he will return to his home city of Munich, to sing on the stage of the Bavarian state Opera, the title role in Verdi’s “Otello”. 18. In July he will perform at the Regensburger schlossfestspiele for the Tickets of his Fans have paid up to 600€.
For the star tenor of the fully filled-in schedule is nothing New. Compared with the weekly newspaper “mirror” revealed Jonas Kaufmann, that he would not have to work so hard, if he would not “hope deep Inside” to tear something. Nevertheless, one could not expect really with the success.
Bavarian state Opera in 2014: a businessman with Kristine Opolais as Manon Lescaut in the eponymous Opera by Puccini
From mathematics to music
The enterprising artist – currently one of the biggest names in the Opera world – rests in fact on its laurels. Media, he gives Interviews in various languages: Italian, French, English or German, to hear in his native language with a slight Bavarian accent.
1969 born in Munich, studied Jonas Kaufmann, first in mathematics and later went to the Munich Hochschule for music and theatre. After graduating in 1994, he sang for two years at the Saarland state theater in Saarbrücken, where he collected mainly experience in lyrical roles.
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Jonas Kaufmann: tenor with Italy love
After the turn of the Millennium, captured a merchant gradually the great Opera houses of the world – from Paris, Brussels, Milan and Munich via Salzburg, New York, London, Vienna and Berlin. He began with lyrical roles, and gradually ventured to the heroic tenor roles of Mozart, Verdi or Wagner. He particularly stood out with his debut at the Bayreuth festival 2010 games, where he sang the title role in the Opera “Lohengrin”. In the previous year, the trade journal “Opernwelt voted him” for his performance of that role in Munich for the “singer of the year”.
Persevering and resilient
The Opera singing requires endurance and, over the years, merchant has proved a high loading capacity. Alone in 2018, he performed in Japan, Santa Monica and Boston, but not only there: The Tour with his “Italian song book” led him through the whole of Europe: Germany, Austria, and France, Spain, the UK and Hungary. He sang at the charity event “Ball of life” in Vienna and at the “Waldbühne” in Berlin, and gave concerts in Moscow, performed in a Show at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and sang in a new production of Verdi’s “Otello” in Munich.
In 2016, made him to create his health: as a result of a hematoma (a broken wire) on the vocal cords, a merchant had to suspend for several months.
One of the many awards: 2015 the merchant has received an Echo Klassik “singer of the year”
An accessible Star
After he had cancelled three gigs in New York – illness and out of a desire to spend more time with his family – has been dubbed due to the merchant as “Mr Untraceable”. Mostly be forgiven for its Cancel, however, it presents itself otherwise, yet, with a reliable high voice quality.
As a Celebrity, which is very accessible, he talks openly about his excitement before each Show – he was not really nervous, just this: blood pressure go a little bit into the height that’ll help him but, in his role’s place.
Last year, he married the Opera Director Christiane Lutz. The family lives with four children – three from his first marriage – outside of Munich.
50. Birthday can mean for an Opera singer is a milestone for Most, the question of whether you wanted to come but shorter then. Jonas Kaufmann, there are no signs of it.