Romantic Arias

Jonas Kaufmann
Label: Decca
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:11th March 2008

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Track Listing

1. Puccini "Che gelida manina" from La BohÃ¨me
2. Bizet "La fleur que tu m'avais jetÃ©e" from Carmen
3. Flotow "Martha: Ach, so fromm" from Martha
4. Puccini "E lucevan le stelle" from Tosca
5. Verdi "Lo l'ho perduta... Io la vidi, e il suo sorriso" from Don Carlos (Aria from Italian four act version)
6. Weber "Nein! LÃ¤nger trag' ich nicht... Durch die WÃ¤lder, durch die Auen" from Der FreischÃ¼tz
7. Verdi "Lunge da lei... De miei bollenti spiriti ...O mio rimorso" from La Traviata (with Jana Sibera - soprano)
8. Massenet "Je suis seul... Ah! Fuyez, douce image" from Manon
9. Verdi "Ella mi fu rapita...Parmi veder le lagrime" from Rigoletto
10. Gounod "Quel trouble inconnu me pÃ©nÃ¨tre?...Salut! Demeure chaste et pure" from Faust
11. Wagner "Morgendlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein" from Die Meistersinger
12. Berlioz "Invocation Ã la nature" from Damnation of Faust
13. Massenet "Pourquoi me rÃ©veiller" from Werther

Product Description

Jonas Kaufmann is without question the most versatile tenor of his generation, and his current repertoire includes an astonishing range of opera roles from Mozart to Wagner. He is also a celebrated Lieder interpreter, equally at home on the concert platform. His Decca Debut album celebrates a luscious range of Romantic opera arias, showcasing the astonishing diversity of his voice.

Jonas Kaufmann has made stunning debuts in many of the world's leading opera houses in recent seasons. For example, to fabulous acclaim he appeared as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera - "smoothly burnished, beautifully focused... and always disarmingly musical" (New York Magazine). He was Don Jose in the 2007 new production of Carmen at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden - "superb" (The Guardian).

Romantic Arias includes opera favorites by the Italian giants Verdi and Puccini, by French greats Berlioz and Bizet, and by Wagner, the epitome of German Romanticism. Kaufmann responds to each composer with seductive ease.

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