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Jonas Kaufmann cancels appearance on opening night of season at Milan's La Scala

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann canceled his appearance in the new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” opening the season at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala on Dec. 7

The Independent UK

Jonas Kaufmann: Puccini: Love Affairs review – will delight fans

The star tenor retrieves some of his old form – helped by six outstanding soprano partners – on this surefire hit spanning La bohème to Madama Butterfly

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Andrea Chénier; The Barber of Seville review – brio and ballistic B-flats

Antonio Pappano bows out with a blazing performance of Giordano’s red-blooded opera, while a fine cast brings out the vitality of Rossini’s classic in spite of the weather

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Andrea Chénier review – Pappano ends on a high with this sensational, thrilling revival

David McVicar’s 2015 staging of Giordano’s French Revolution opera is the final production of Antonio Pappano’s tenure as music director of the Royal Opera. With leads Jonas Kaufmann and Sondra Radvanovsky, it is an exciting, affecting evening

The Guardian - UK

Antonio Pappano Gala review – farewell concert celebrates the best thing that has happened to the Royal Opera

Singers including Jonas Kaufmann joined newer vocal stars such as Aigul Akhmetshina to honour the much loved music director on an evening that ended with the royal seal of approval

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Netrebko, Kaufmann and Pappano thrill in Salzburg

Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko and Antonio Pappano pull off a buoyant La Gioconda; elsewhere, a fresh Verdi Requiem and a Byronic septuagenarian viola soloist made this a festival to remember

The Guardian - UK

Wagner: Parsifal album review – Elīna Garanča is extraordinary in a very fine account of Wagner’s fascinating score

This new recording is taken from stage performances of Kirill Serebrennikov’s divisive 2021 production for Vienna State Opera. Jonas Kaufmann leads a superb cast with Philippe Jordan conducting a recording that is amongst the finest Parsifals on disc

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Our top 10 classical recordings of 2023

Previously unexplored corners of repertoire, why Italians are outstanding Monteverdians, and a recording of Liszt with huge verve and personality

The Guardian - UK

Jonas Kaufmann battles back from infection in Claus Guth's 'Doppleganger'

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recovered from a multi-drug resistant germ infection, is appearing in “Doppleganger,” a staged version of Schubert's final songs

The Independent UK

Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma! review – Oh, What a Beautiful Recording

John Wilson’s scrupulously prepared recording gives us exactly what the audience would have heard on the musical’s opening night in New York in 1943

The Guardian - UK

Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen taking on new challenges on two continents

Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is embarking on her most ambitious season yet

The Independent UK

The week in classical: 74th Aldeburgh Festival; Werther – review

From thundering Thorvaldsdóttir to late-night Bach, it’s a standout year for Britten’s music festival, while at the ROH Jonas Kaufmann made a subdued Werther

The Guardian - UK

Werther review – Kaufmann heads strong cast in stylishly sung and fabulously played revival

This revival of Benoît Jacquot’s 2004 staging of Massenet’s tragedy sees Antonio Pappano and his orchestra on top form. Kaufmann was not at full strength but Aigul Akhmetshina’s Charlotte shone

The Guardian - UK

Werther at the Royal Opera House review: superstar Jonas Kaufmann is eclipsed

The German tenor reverted to little more than a half-voice croon for much of the show

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The singing was great – but what was it about? Why opera companies should explain themselves better

Opera Australia has received outstanding reviews for its Melbourne season of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin.

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Jonas Kaufmann/Diana Damrau/Helmut Deutsch; Royal Academy Opera

The peerless tenor and his companion turn Schumann and Brahms’s romantic duets into tiny operas, while the Royal Academy’s rising stars enchant… and mystify

The Guardian - UK

Kaufmann/Damrau and Deutsch review – deeply felt, rapturous performance

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann’s dark and beautiful tone captured Schumann’s introspection and interlocked with soprano Diana Damrau’s wonderful vocal lines for a ravishing Brahms closer

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