Jonas Kaufmann Mozart Schubert Beethoven and Wagner

Product Description Jonas Kaufmann has already performed many of these roles on the world's great opera stages. This album consists of outstanding arias from German opera; music of his homeland, which he grew up hearing. Includes outstanding German tenor arias from the great operas of Wagner, Beethoven's only opera Fidelio, favorite arias by Mozart, and rarely heard opera arias by Schubert. The great opera conductor Claudio Abbado directs the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Track list includes arias from the Magic Flute, Fidelio, Die Walkure, and others. About the Artist Born in Munich, tenor JONAS KAUFMANN has made sensational debuts in recent seasons in many of the world's leading opera houses, appearing at the Royal Opera Covent Garden in La Rondine opposite Angela Gheorghiu and in the 2007 new production of Carmen under Antonio Pappano, as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera, as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Vienna State Opera and Metropolitan Opera , as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Salzburg Festival as Faust in Le Damnation de Faust at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels and in Fidelio at the Teatro alla Scala under Riccardo Muti. He made his Salzburg festival debut in 1999 in a new production of Busoni's Dr. Faust and returned there in 2003 as Belmonte and for concerts of the Beethoven Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic. Closely associated with the Zurich Opera since 2001 he has appeared there in several new productions including the title roles in Idomeneo, La Clemenza di Tito and Schubert's Fierrabras as well as Nerone in, L'Incoranazione di Poppea. Other roles in Zurich have also included the Duke in Rigoletto, the title role in Gounod's Faust, Florestan in Fidelio, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. In 2006 he sang his first performances of the title role in Wagner's Parsifal in Zurich and that season also sang his first Walther von Stolzing in a concert performance of Die Meistersinger at the Edinburgh Festival conducted by David Robertson. He had previously been heard there as Max in Der Freischutz under Sir Charles Mackerras. Jonas Kaufmann sang his first Don Carlos in Zurich in early 2007 and other recent projects included La Traviata the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan Zurich Opera and in new product