Jonas Kaufmann
Birthday: 1969-07-10
Place of Birth: München, Germany
Biography: Jonas Kaufmann was born in 1969 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He is an operatic tenor, known for In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), Andrea Chénier: Live from the Royal Opera House (2015) and Tosca (2011). He has been married to Christiane Lutz since January 2019. They have one child. He was previously married to Margarete Joswig.
Movies
The Legacy of Othello
A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English p...
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Parsifal
The male circle of the Grail Knights is in crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the counter-rea...
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Carmen
Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and ...
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Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier
Herbert Wernicke's production of Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier", filmed live at the Festspiel...
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Adriana Lecouvreur
Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as ...
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Royal Opera House: Tosca
The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Br...
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Lohengrin: Opera romantica in tre atti
The people of the Duchy of Brabant are divided by quarrels and political infighting; also, a devious...
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Jonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023
For the centenary of the Verona Opera Festival, Jonas Kaufmann gave a gala concert in the Arena on 2...
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Casanova Variations
Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beau...
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Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...
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Humperdinck - Königskinder
Engelbert Humperdinck's opera in an Opernhaus Zurich staging...
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Bizet Carmen
Live recording from Oper Zurich, 2008, DVD release 2014. Jonas Kaufmann, 'the Prince of Tenors', ap...
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then ther...
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Puccini Manon Lescaut
The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury....
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Jonas Kaufmann: An Evening with Puccini
In June 2015, superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann walked onto the stage of La Scala in Milan to perform a...
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Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier
At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunci...
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Verdi La Forza del Destino
This performance of 2014 can be considered as a reference on account of the quality of the vocal mat...
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Netrebko, Schrott and Kaufmann in Munich
The opera trio performed to a crowd of 15,000 who were willing to pay ticket prices up to $500 for t...
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Meeting of the stars
An exceptional open air concert on Munich's King's Square gathers the stars of opera: Anna Netrebko,...
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The Girl of the Golden West
A celebrated new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West from the Vienna State opera featuring...
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Parsifal
The Met assembled an ideal cast for François Girard’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s final mas...
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Messiah
This is an exhilarating experience both visually and aurally. How wonderful that Barenboim is havng ...
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Manon Lescaut
In June 2014, London’s Royal Opera House presented Jonathan Kent’s new production of Manon Lescaut. ...
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Carmen aux Chorégies d'Orange 2015
Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015....
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The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of th...
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Gounod: Faust
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live...
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Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier
“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. Hi...
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Paisiello Nina
The opera: Nina, o sia La Pazza Per Amore itself, is an extra-ordinary sad and touching story, and s...
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Du Bist Die Welt Für Mich
The world’s greatest tenor presents an evening of melodies from a golden era and an engrossing docum...
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Kaufmann's Otello at the Royal Opera House
On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...
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Beethoven - Fidelio (Zurich 2004)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is the conductor in this 2004 production of Beethoven's only opera staged at th...
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Fierrabras
Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and bas...
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Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos
Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between ...
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Massenet: Werther
Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...
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Jonas Kaufmann: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
As comparably short operas, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are often billed together, but seldom...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Werther
Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings aching intensity and vocal charisma to the tortured title hero of M...
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Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino
Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by C...
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Wagner - Lohengrin
Wagner's Lohengrin is the mythical tale of the mysterious Knight of the Grail, who appears to defend...
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Verdi: Otello
Like an outcry the elemental force of the orchestra shatters the silence, the storm on the coast of ...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West
Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild W...
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La Clemenza di Tito
This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It’s well p...
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Royal Opera House: Fidelio
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
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Jonas Kaufmann: Dolce Vita
JK's is definitely in love with Italy; not only is he fluent in Italian but he sings here traditiona...
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Ariadne auf Naxos
Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...
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Jonas Kaufmann – Mein Wien
Jonas Kaufmann's very personal tribute to the city's famous music. We see the star tenor on the move...
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Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere duri...
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Jonas Kaufmann: Tenor for the Ages
Intimate behind-the-scenes documentary about the handsome German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, one of the ho...
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Jonas Kaufmann - A Global Star in Private
Opera star Jonas Kaufmann is known as the “King of Tenors”. This emotional and personal film reveals...
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Summer Night Concert: 2020
The Summer Night Concert was performed this year on September 18th 2020. It is an annual open-air ev...
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A riveder le stelle
"Lucia de Lammermoor" should actually have opened this year's season. But Corona prevents the title ...
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Korngold: Die tote Stadt
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed...
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
The revolutionary tribunal has sentenced Andrea Chénier to death and no one can avert his fate. Shor...
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Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
Singin' in the Rain, Strangers in the Night, What a Wonderful World: accompanied by the Czech Nation...
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Otello
In the imposing Wiener Staatsoper, experience the intense tragedy of Otello, played by Jonas Kaufman...
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Turandot
Director Claus Guth heightens the surrealism of this initially extremely cruel fairy tale, which he ...
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Tosca - Bayerische Staatsoper
For this new production at the Bayerische Staatsoper, stage director Kornél Mundruczó and conductor ...
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Ludovic
Ludovic Tézier is today one of the greatest baritones in the world. Behind this major voice of opera...
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Met Stars: Jonas Kaufmann
From pioneering radio broadcasts to high-definition transmissions in cinemas in more than 70 countri...
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Barenboim
A Verdi Requiem with a dream line-up of soloists and the forces of La Scala, Milan, directed by one ...
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Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann
The Vienna State Opera celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Second Austrian Republic in the Burgga...
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New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Under the baton of Kirill Petrenko, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional New Year's Eve c...
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