Part II - Your Favorites: JONAS KAUFMANN

THIS PART IS FOR YOUR FAVORITES! What´s your opinion about german tenor Jonas Kaufmann? Please give us your comment! Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor (born 1969) Georges Bizet - Carmen La fleur que tu mavais jetée (The Flower-Song) (Recorded live at Covent Garden 2006) My personal opinion: He is the shooting-star among today´s tenors: "Bizet´s famous opera Carmen must be renamed, because with Jonas Kaufmann we have the ideal Don José at last!", wrote with enthusiastic words german critic Jürgen Kesting - and he compared Kaufmann in his best dramatic moments with "the great Jon Vickers". No doubt, Jonas Kaufmann´s voice is extraordinary and almost incomparable: A dark velvet masculine ground in combination with an attractive upper register. With 47 nominations he reached place position 18 - this is really a sensational result for a 1969 born singer, who came out in the mid-1990s. Kaufmann is the most versatile tenor of today with a repertory from baroque to modern music: He sings Verdi and Puccini, Wagner and french Operas, Songs from Schubert, Britten and Mahler and so on. For me, he´sa singer who gives new impulses in modern rendition of classical repertoire. His recital of "Die schöne Müllerin" is a welcome change in the dusty monotony of usual Schubert-singing. Kaufmann not only gives a rendition, he goes through the joy and sorrow of the young ingenuous wanderer. When he begins with "Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond" or "In fernem Land", we experience from the first line, we ...