Jonas Kaufmann
{{Short description|German opera singer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jonas Kaufmann
| image = Jonas Kaufmann 9 May 2008 London.jpg
| caption = Kaufmann in 2008
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1969|07|10}}
| birth_place = Munich, West Germany
| years_active = 1994–present
| occupation = Operatic tenor
| children = 4
| website = {{URL|jonaskaufmann.com}}
}}
Jonas Kaufmann (born July 10, 1969) is a German-Austrian tenor opera singer. He is best known for the versatility of his repertoire, performing a variety of opera roles in multiple languages in recitalTommasini, Anthony (21 February 2014). [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/arts/music/jonas-kaufmann-in-recital-at-carnegie-hall.html "A Tenor Finds Energy for Intense, Lyrical Pain"]. The New York Times. Retrieved 26 December 2014.Christiansen, Rupert (19 December 2014). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culture-review-of-the-year/11285626/Opera-Review-of-2014-the-start-of-opera-becoming-the-domain-of-the-elite.html "Opera Review of 2014: the start of opera becoming the domain of the elite?"]. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 December 2014. and concert each season. Some of his standout roles include Don José in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, Don Alvaro in La forza del destino, Siegmund in Die Walküre, and the title roles in Parsifal, Werther, Don Carlos, and Lohengrin. In 2014 The New York Times described Kaufmann as "a box-office draw, and... the most important, versatile tenor of his generation."{{cite news|last1=Woolfe|first1=Zachary|title=For a Sage Tenor, It's All in the Timing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/arts/music/jonas-kaufmann-chooses-his-met-roles-carefully.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 February 2014|access-date=4 April 2015}}
Early life and education
Kaufmann was born in Munich. His father worked for an insurance company, and his mother was a kindergarten teacher. He had one older sister. He started studying piano when he was eight, and he sang in his elementary school choir. Although he studied for mathematics entrance exams, in the summer of 1989 he began his vocal training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. While he was studying, he sang some small roles at the Bavarian State Opera. He graduated from university in 1994, achieving distinctions in both opera and concert performances.{{cite web|url=http://www.jonaskaufmann.com/en/6/about-me.html|title=About me|publisher=Kaufmann website|access-date=12 March 2011|archive-date=13 February 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140213104152/http://www.jonaskaufmann.com/en/6/about-me.html|url-status=dead}}
In 1995, Kaufmann received help from American baritone Michael Rhodes, who taught him a "new way of singing" and how to become "more relaxed in my voice and in myself."{{cite web |url=http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/education/the_teacher_who_saved_jonas_kaufmanns_voice/ |title=The teacher who saved Jonas Kaufmann's voice |first=Brian |last=Micklethwait |date=14 February 2008 |access-date=6 May 2011 |archive-date=17 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517071158/http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/education/the_teacher_who_saved_jonas_kaufmanns_voice |url-status=dead }} In Kaufmann's book Meinen die wirklich mich? he said, "To find a Michael Rhodes that can really help you and bring you to success is really a great stroke of luck."Voigt, Thomas (2010). Jonas Kaufmann "Meinen die wirklich mich?": Henschel Verlag GmbH & Co.KG. {{ISBN|978-3-89487-669-2}}. p. 52
Career
File:Salzburger Festspiele 2012 - Ariadne auf Naxos.jpg as Ariadne and Kaufmann as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, at the Salzburg Festival of 2012]]
He began his professional career at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken in 1994{{cite web |url=http://www.deccaclassics.com/artist/biography?ART_ID=KAUJO |title=Artists |website=Deccaclassics.com |access-date=2017-07-13 |archive-date=4 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004230328/http://www.deccaclassics.com/artist/biography?ART_ID=KAUJO |url-status=dead }} and was soon invited to make debuts in German theaters such as the Stuttgart Opera and Hamburg State Opera, as well as international debuts at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra National de Paris, and La Scala. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1999 in a new production of Busoni's Doktor Faust and returned there in 2003 as Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail and for concerts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic.
He performed the role of Don José in Bizet's Carmen, to critical acclaim, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2006/7. He made his debut as Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera alongside Angela Gheorghiu in 2006, also to critical acclaim,{{cite web|last=Davis |first=Peter G. |url=http://nymag.com/arts/classicaldance/classical/reviews/16102/ |title=La Traviata – Classical Music Review|work=New York|date=23 February 2006 |access-date=2017-07-13}} and also sang the role at the Met in 2007 and 2008, and at the Royal Opera House in 2008. In May 2008, he played Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca at Covent Garden, yet again to critical acclaim.Hilary Finch, The Times, Tosca at Covent Garden, 14 May 2008
In 2008/9, he performed in Massenet's Manon in Chicago opposite Natalie Dessay and in the title role of a new production of Wagner's Lohengrin at the Bavarian State Opera. He also sang Lohengrin on the opening night of the Bayreuth Festival in 2010, in a production staged by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Andris Nelsons.
His debut recording with Decca, Romantic Arias, was released in January 2008. He has also recorded a Schubert song cycle on the same label and the role of Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly for EMI.
In January 2010, he took the title role in Massenet's Werther at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. The performance was recorded and released on DVD in November 2010.
In April 2011, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Siegmund in Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's Die Walküre.Metropolitan Opera Archives. [http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/gisrch2k.r?Term=Kaufmann,%20Jonas%20%5BTenor%5D&limit=5000&vsrchtype=no&xBranch=ALL&xmtype=&Start=&End=&theterm=Ka%75fmann,%20Jonas%20%5B%54%65no%72%5D&srt=&x=0&xHome=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/bibpro.htm&xHomePath=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/ Kaufmann, Jonas (Tenor)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030110851/http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/gisrch2k.r?Term=Kaufmann,%20Jonas%20%5BTenor%5D&limit=5000&vsrchtype=no&xBranch=ALL&xmtype=&Start=&End=&theterm=Kaufmann,%20Jonas%20%5BTenor%5D&srt=&x=0&xHome=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/bibpro.htm&xHomePath=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/ |date=30 October 2020 }} (performance record) In September 2011, he underwent surgery to remove a lymph node from his chest.[http://www.jonaskaufmann.com/en/4/#16 News: Surgery successful] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125221241/https://www.jonaskaufmann.com/en/4/#16 |date=25 November 2020 }} on Kaufmann's official website, jonaskaufmann.comWakin, Daniel J. (August 29, 2011). [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-tenor-jonas-kaufmann-keeps-plans-despite-surgery/ "The Tenor Jonas Kaufmann Keeps Plans Despite Surgery"]. The New York Times[http://blog.fujitv.co.jp/bologna/E20110823001.html Dear Friends] – Open letter from Jonas Kaufmann published on the website of Fuji Television. "Lymph nodes" is written in the Japanese version. In December, he was back, performing the title role in Gounod's Faust.
On 15 February 2013, Kaufmann made his first appearance in the title role of Wagner's Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera. His performance received rave reviews from critics.{{cite news|last1=Tommasini|first1=Anthony|author-link=Anthony Tommasini|title=Dark Nights of the Soul in the Kingdom of the Holy Grail|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/arts/music/parsifal-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html?pagewanted=all|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 February 2013 |access-date=29 January 2015}} In July of that year he was named a Kammersänger of the Bavarian State Opera by the Bavarian Ministry of Arts. In December he sang the role of Don Alvaro in Verdi's La forza del destino with the company.Apthorp, Shirley (29 December 2013). [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c7a6b8c2-6ee0-11e3-bc9e-00144feabdc0.html "La forza del destino, Bavarian State Opera, Nationaltheater, Munich – review"]. Financial Times. Retrieved 26 December 2014
In February 2014, Kaufmann sang the title role in Massenet's Werther at the Met. He followed this by touring with Schubert's song cycle Winterreise with Helmut Deutsch. In June 2014, he made his debut in the role of Des Grieux in Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Royal Opera House in London.Clements, Andrew (18 June 2014). [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/18/manon-lescaut-review-the-royal-opera-house-kaufmann-opolais "Manon Lescaut review – Kaufmann's singing is exceptional"]. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 December 2014. That November he sang the same role in another production of Manon Lescaut at the Bavarian State Opera.Neuhoff, Bernhard (16 November 2014). [http://www.br.de/radio/br-klassik/sendungen/allegro/manon-lescaut-premierenkritik-100.html "Triumph für Jonas Kaufmann, Manon Lescaut an der Bayerischen Staatsoper"]. Bayerischer Rundfunk. Retrieved 26 December 2014 {{in lang|de}}.
On 12 September 2015, Kaufmann became the first German singer to perform the British patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" at the Last Night of The Proms.[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34221286 Sound of Music singalong at Last Night of the Proms] BBC News. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
On 23 February 2016, the documentary Jonas Kaufmann: An Evening with Puccini was released in selected theaters in the United States. The film centered around Kaufmann's 2015 performance at La Scala in Milan and featured rare archive footage.{{cite news|last1=Holubiak|first1=Ian|title=Jonas Kaufmann Debuts An Evening with Puccini February 2016|url=http://www.classicalite.com/articles/33576/20151216/jonas-kaufmann-debuts-evening-puccini-february-2016-win-tosca-bluray.htm|access-date=December 17, 2015|publisher=Classicalite|date=December 16, 2015}}{{Update inline|date=January 2017}}
In 2018, Kaufmann made his debut as Tristan in concert performances of the second act of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.{{cite news|title=Jonas Kaufmann: Wagner's Tristan Is 'Like a Drug'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/arts/music/jonas-kaufmann-wagner-tristan-und-isolde-boston-symphony.html|work=The New York Times|date=6 April 2018 |last1=Barone |first1=Joshua }}
In 2019, the concert stage saw Kaufmann tour Germany with Mahler's “Lied von der Erde”, and performances from his “L'Opéra” CD. Operatic highlights include Fidelio and Otello at the Bayerische Staatsoper; La Forza del destino at the Royal Opera House in London; Andrea Chenier in Sydney and Melbourne and a new production of Die Tote Stadt in Munich.{{Cite web|title=DIE TOTE STADT|url=https://www.staatsoper.de/stuecke/die-tote-stadt|access-date=2022-02-03|website=Bayerische Staatsoper|language=de}}
Highlights from 2020 included a tour of Kaufmann's album "Mein Wien", Aida at the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli; Don Carlos at the Wiener Staatsoper; La Bohème at the Bayerische Staatsoper; and Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli.{{Cite web|date=2020-12-08|title=Jonas Kaufmann, Elīna Garanča, Pietro Mascagni CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Teatro di San Carlo, Napoli, 4. Dezember 2020|url=https://klassik-begeistert.de/jonas-kaufmann-elina-garanca-pietro-mascagni-cavalleria-rusticana-teatro-di-san-carlo-napoli-4-dezember-2020/|access-date=2022-02-03|website=Klassik begeistert|language=de-DE}}
In 2021, Kaufmann gave recitals in Madrid and Vienna; sung in new productions of Aida in Paris and Parsifal in Vienna; and had his full role debut as Tristan at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Kaufmann also embarked on a tour of North America, accompanied by pianist Helmut Deutsch.{{Cite web|title=Jonas Kaufmann tops off his American tour with a paean to the art of lieder – Seen and Heard International|url=https://seenandheard-international.com/2021/10/jonas-kaufmann-tops-off-his-american-tour-with-a-paean-to-the-art-of-lieder/|access-date=2022-02-03|website=seenandheard-international.com}}
Kaufmann commenced the year 2022 with a role debut as the titular role in Britten's Peter Grimes at the Wiener Staatsoper.{{Cite web|last=Staatsoper|first=Wiener|title=Peter Grimes|url=https://upstream.wiener-staatsoper.at/spielplan-kartenkauf/detail/event/983446961-peter-grimes/|access-date=2022-02-03|website=upstream.wiener-staatsoper.at|language=de}}
In March 2022, a studio recording of Turandot was organized by Antonio Pappano at the Santa Cecilia auditorium. Jonas Kaufmann sang the role of Calaf for the first time there alongside Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role. A public concert was performed on 12 March 2022 in Rome.{{Cite web|url=https://santacecilia.it/en/concerto/puccini-turandot/|title = Puccini: Turandot}}
After Turandot Kaufmann undertakes a tour of eleven concerts of Lieder by Brahms and Schumann with Diana Damrau and her usual pianist Helmut Deutsch, in various European cities, including Berlin, Munich, Paris, London.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/30/kaufmanndamrau-and-deutsch-review-deeply-felt-rapturous-performance|title = Kaufmanndamrau-ans-deutsch-review| newspaper=The Guardian | date=30 March 2022 | last1=Ashley | first1=Tim }} He made his role debut as Calaf (Turandot) in Rome with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra, conducted by Pappano, performed Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca) at Teatro San Carlo in Naples,{{Cite web |title=Teatro di San Carlo - Tosca |url=https://www.teatrosancarlo.it/en/spettacoli/tosca-2021-22.html |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=www.teatrosancarlo.it}} the title role in Lohengrin at Melbourne Opera,{{Cite web |title=Lohengrin |url=https://opera.org.au/productions/lohengrin-melbourne/ |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=Opera Australia |language=en-US}} and made his operatic debut at the Arena di Verona, performing Radames in Aida.{{Cite web |title=Jonas Kaufmann is Radamès on August 28 |url=https://www.arena.it/en/arena-di-verona/news/jonas-kaufmann-radames-aida-28-agosto-2022-arena-di-verona |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=www.arena.it |language=en}}
To begin the 2022/23 season, Kaufmann returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper to perform the title role in Britten's Peter Grimes.{{Cite web |title=PETER GRIMES |url=https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productions/peter-grimes |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=Bayerische Staatsoper |language=en}} To commence the New Year, he performed the role of Radames in Verdi's Aida at the Wiener Staatsoper alongside Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča.{{Cite web |last=Staatsoper |first=Wiener |title=Aida |url=https://upstream.wiener-staatsoper.at/spielplan-kartenkauf/detail/event/986898838-aida/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=upstream.wiener-staatsoper.at |language=de}} At the Wiener Staatsoper he also performed the title role in Andrea Chenier{{Cite web |title=„Andrea Chénier“ am 09.12.2022 {{!}} Spielplanarchiv der Wiener Staatsoper |url=https://archiv.wiener-staatsoper.at/performances/61845 |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=archiv.wiener-staatsoper.at}}, which he later performed at La Scala.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-03 |title=Andrea Chénier |url=https://www.teatroallascala.org/en/season/2022-2023/opera/andrea-chenier.html |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=www.teatroallascala.org |language=en}} He made his role debut as the title-role in Tannhäuser at the Salzburger Osterfestspiele,{{Cite web |last=Rundfunk |first=Bayerischer |date=2023-04-03 |title=Kritik – Jonas Kaufmann als Tannhäuser in Salzburg: Eine gefühlte Ewigkeit {{!}} BR-Klassik |url=https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/kritik-tannhaeuser-wagner-jonas-kaufmann-osterfestspiele-salzburg-100.html |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=www.br-klassik.de |language=de}} and also performed the title role in Werther at the Royal Opera House.{{Cite web |title=Jonas Kaufmanns spätherbstlicher Werther in London gefeiert |url=https://www.operaversum.de/oper/inszenierungen-2023/jonas-kaufmanns-sp%C3%A4therbstlicher-werther-am-royal-opera-house-london/ |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=Operaversum |language=de-DE}} On the concert stage, he performed several recitals in Europe and in South America.
Highlights of Kaufmann's 2023/24 season include the world premiere of Doppelgänger in New York's Park Avenue Armory with Helmut Deutsch, directed by Claus Guth, {{Cite web |title=Doppelganger : Program & Events |url=https://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/2023_doppelganger |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=Park Avenue Armory}} and Calaf in Puccini's Turandot alongside Asmik Grigorian in the title role{{Cite web |last=Staatsoper |first=Wiener |title=Turandot |url=https://upstream.wiener-staatsoper.at/en/season-tickets/detail/event/992364501-turandot/ |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=upstream.wiener-staatsoper.at |language=en}} at the Wiener Staatsoper.
Personal life
Kaufmann has been married twice. His first marriage to mezzo-soprano {{ill|Margarete Joswig|de}} produced three children, and ended in divorce.Jinman, Richard (1 August 2014). [http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/tenor-jonas-kaufmann-seeking-passion-not-perfection-20140729-zxqgj.html "Tenor Jonas Kaufmann seeking passion, not perfection"]. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2014.{{Cite news|url=http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.scheidung-in-der-opernwelt-jonas-kaufmann-hat-sich-von-seiner-frau-margarete-joswig-getrennt.e5dedc9f-a0ba-455a-92cd-42029b7ada50.html|title=Jonas Kaufmann hat sich von seiner Frau Margarete Joswig getrennt|first=Robert|last=Braunmüller|date=15 April 2014|work=Abendzeitung|location=Munich|language=de}} His second marriage is to the opera director Christiane Lutz.{{cite web|title=Jonas Kaufmann erlebt neue Liebe "wie ein Blitzschlag"|work=Die Presse|date=8 June 2016|url=http://diepresse.com/home/leben/mensch/5006035/Jonas-Kaufmann-erlebt-neue-Liebe-wie-ein-Blitzschlag|access-date=15 October 2017}} The couple married in late 2018,{{cite news | url=https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.freundin-ist-schwanger-jonas-kaufmann-er-wird-zum-vierten-mal-vater.a020dbe9-5924-4ff4-a1bf-779aaf23c3db.html | title=Freundin ist schwanger – Jonas Kaufmann: Er wird zum vierten Mal Vater! | work=Abendzeitung München | author=Kimberly Hagen | date=30 November 2018 | access-date=27 April 2019}}{{cite news | url=https://www.kleinezeitung.at/leute/5555738/Startenor-Jonas-Kaufmann_Er-hat-Ja-gesagt | title=Startenor Jonas Kaufmann – Er hat Ja gesagt | work=Kleine Zeitung | date=5 January 2019 | access-date=27 April 2019}} and have a child, born in March 2019.{{cite news | url=https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.star-tenor-im-vaterglueck-jonas-kaufmann-das-baby-mit-seiner-frau-ist-da.76ae1c21-3705-4f1f-b435-036d2ad29505.html | title=Star-Tenor im Vaterglück – Jonas Kaufmann: Das Baby mit seiner Frau ist da! | work=Abendzeitung München | date=23 March 2019 | access-date=27 April 2019}}
Kaufmann has German and Austrian dual citizenship, with Austrian citizenship awarded to him in February 2021. His current main residence is in Salzburg.{{cite news | url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000133299430/opernsaenger-jonas-kaufmann-ist-jetzt-auch-oesterreicher | title=Jonas Kaufmann is now Austrian too (German)}}
Discography
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| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| GER {{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/suche?artist_search=Jonas+Kaufmann&do_search=do|title=offziellecharts.de – Jonas Kaufmann|access-date=21 September 2018}} ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| AUT ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| BEL ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| FRA ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| SPN ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| SWI ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| UK |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2001
| Der Vampyr | Jonas Kaufmann / Franz Hawlata / Regina Klepper / Anke Hoffmann / Markus Marquardt / Thomas Dewald / Yoo-Chang Nah / WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln & Helmuth Froschauer | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2006
| Strauss Lieder | Jonas Kaufmann / Piano Helmut Deutsch | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2008
| Romantic Arias | Jonas Kaufmann / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra / Marco Armiliato | style="text-align:center;"| 31 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 148 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2008
| Puccini: Madama Butterfly | Angela Gheorghiu / Jonas Kaufmann / Enkeleida Shkosa / Fabio Capitanucci / Orchestra e Coro dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma / Antonio Pappano | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2009
| Sehnsucht | Jonas Kaufmann / Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Claudio Abbado | style="text-align:center;"| 48 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 119 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2010
| Schubert – Die schöne Müllerin | Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 133 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| Verismo Arias
| Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 51 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 68 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2011
| Die Superstars der Klassik – Singen die schönsten Opernarien | Erwin Schrott / Anna Netrebko / Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 34 | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2012
| Königskinder – Engelbert Humperdinck | Jonas Kaufmann / Isabel Rey | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"| 2013
| Wagner | Kaufmann / Runnicles / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin | style="text-align:center;"| 43 | style="text-align:center;"| 30 | style="text-align:center;"| 99 | style="text-align:center;"| 76 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| Verdi Requiem
| Anja Harteros / Elīna Garanča / Jonas Kaufmann / René Pape / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala / Daniel Barenboim | style="text-align:center;"| 37 | style="text-align:center;"| 51 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| Best of
| Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 148 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| Jonas Kaufmann
| Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 59 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 145 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| The Verdi Album
| Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 16 | style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| 120 | style="text-align:center;"| 53 | style="text-align:center;"| 58 | style="text-align:center;"| 55 | style="text-align:center;"| 100 |
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2014
| Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch | style="text-align:center;"| 38 | style="text-align:center;"| 22 | style="text-align:center;"| 111 | style="text-align:center;"| 87 | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| 73 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| Du bist die Welt für mich
| Jonas Kaufmann, Julia Kleiter (soprano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conductor: Jochen Rieder | style="text-align:center;"| 11 | style="text-align:center;"| 9 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 84 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 55 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| 2015
| The Age of Puccini | Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 56 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| Nessun Dorma – The Puccini Album
| Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 10 | style="text-align:center;"| 8 | style="text-align:center;"| 161 | style="text-align:center;"| 23 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 26 | style="text-align:center;"| 22 |
| Aida
| Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Ludovic Tézier, Erwin Schrott, Antonio Pappano & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | style="text-align:center;"| 55 | style="text-align:center;"| 74 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2016
| Dolce Vita | Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| 42 | style="text-align:center;"| 38 | style="text-align:center;"| 37 | style="text-align:center;"| 26 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2017
| Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde | Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 26 | style="text-align:center;"| 43 | style="text-align:center;"| 136 | style="text-align:center;"| 122 | style="text-align:center;"| 78 | style="text-align:center;"| 88 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| L'Opéra
| Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 26 | style="text-align:center;"| 13 | style="text-align:center;"| 102 | style="text-align:center;"| 51 | style="text-align:center;"| 50 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2018
| Eine italienische Nacht – Live aus der Waldbühne Berlin | Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 29 | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 88 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| style="text-align:center;"| 2019
| Jonas Kaufmann, Vienna Philharmonic and Ádám Fischer | style="text-align:center;"| 10 | style="text-align:center;"| 2 | style="text-align:center;"| 131 | style="text-align:center;"| 76 | style="text-align:center;"| 34 | style="text-align:center;"| [https://www.classicfm.com/radio/shows-presenters/classic-fm-chart/karl-jenkins-jonas-kaufmann-daniil-trifonov/ 2]{{Cite web|url=https://www.classicfm.com/radio/shows-presenters/classic-fm-chart/karl-jenkins-jonas-kaufmann-daniil-trifonov/|title=Classic FM Chart: Karl Jenkins enters the chart at No. 1 with Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption|website=Classic FM|language=en|access-date=2019-11-03}} |
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"| 2020
| Verdi: Otello | Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | style="text-align:center;"| 30 | style="text-align:center;"| 24 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 34 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| Selige Stunde
| Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch | style="text-align:center;"| 28 | style="text-align:center;"| 9 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 61 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| Sommernachtskonzert 2020
| Jonas Kaufmann, Valery Gergiev, der Wiener Philharmoniker | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 13 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| It's Christmas!
| Jonas Kaufmann | style="text-align:center;"| 6 | style="text-align:center;"| 2 | style="text-align:center;"| 95 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} | style="text-align:center;"| 19 | style="text-align:center;"| {{spaced ndash}} |
| 2021
|Liszt – Freudvoll und Leidvoll |Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch | | | | | | | |
| |It's Christmas – Extended Edition
|Jonas Kaufmann | | | | | | | |
| 2022
|Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch | | | | | | | |
| 2022
|Insieme |Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano | | | | | | | |
| 2023
|Turandot |Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho, Michele Pertusi, Michael Spyres, Sondra Radvanovsky, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano{{Cite web |title=Turandot {{!}} Warner Classics |url=https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/turandot |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=www.warnerclassics.com |language=de}} | | | | | | | |
| 2023
|The Sound of Movies |Jonas Kaufmann | | | | | | | |
| 2024
|Parsifal |Jonas Kaufmann, Elina Garanca, Ludovic Tézier, Georg Zeppenfeld, Philippe Jordan | | | | | | | |
| 2024
|Puccini: Love Affairs |Anna Netrebko, Pretty Yende, Sonya Yoncheva, Maria Agresta, Malin Byström, Asmik Grigorian, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Asher Fisch | | | | | | | |
| colspan="15" style="font-size:90%"| "–" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
=DVDs=
- 2002: Monteverdi – Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Jonas Kaufmann / Vesselina Kasarova / Dietrich Henschel / Isabel Rey)
- 2002: Paisiello – Nina (Jonas Kaufmann / Cecilia Bartoli / László Polgár)
- 2004: Beethoven – Fidelio (Jonas Kaufmann / Camilla Nylund / László Polgár / Alfred Muff / Elizabeth Magnuson / Christoph Strehl)
- 2005: Mozart – La clemenza di Tito (Jonas Kaufmann / Vesselina Kasarova / Eva Mei / Malin Hartelius)
- 2006: Bizet – Carmen (Jonas Kaufmann / Anna Caterina Antonacci / Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Norah Amsellem)
- 2006: Schubert – Fierrabras (Jonas Kaufmann / Juliane Banse / Michael Volle / Christoph Strehl / László Polgár)
- 2008: Bizet – Carmen (Jonas Kaufmann / Vesselina Kasarova / Isabel Rey / Michele Pertusi)
- 2009: R. Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier (Renée Fleming / Sophie Koch / Diana Damrau / Franz Hawlata / Jonas Kaufmann)
- 2009: Wagner – Lohengrin (Jonas Kaufmann / Anja Harteros / Wolfgang Koch / Michaela Schuster / Christof Fischesser / Evgeny Nikitin)
- 2010: Massenet – Werther (Jonas Kaufmann / Sophie Koch / Michel Plasson)
- 2010: Humperdinck – Königskinder (Jonas Kaufmann / Isabel Rey / Oilver Widmer / Liliana Nikiteanu)
- 2010: Cilea – Adriana Lecouvreur (Jonas Kaufmann / Angela Gheorghiu / Olga Borodina / Alessandro Corbelli)
- 2011: Puccini – Tosca (Jonas Kaufmann / Emily Magee / Thomas Hampson)
- 2011: Wagner – Die Walküre (Jonas Kaufmann / Eva-Maria Westbroek / Deborah Voigt / Bryn Terfel)
- 2011: Gounod – Faust (Jonas Kaufmann / Marina Poplavskaya / René Pape)
- 2011: Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen (Jonas Kaufmann / Bryn Terfel / Deborah Voigt / Jay Hunter Morris / Eva-Maria Westbroek)
- 2012: R.Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos (Jonas Kaufmann / Emily Magee / Elena Moșuc / Peter Matić / Cornelius Obonya)
- 2012: Puccini – Tosca (Angela Gheorghiu / Jonas Kaufmann / Bryn Terfel / Antonio Pappano)
- 2012: Verdi – Requiem (Jonas Kaufmann / Anja Harteros / Elīna Garanča / René Pape)
- 2013: Wagner – Parsifal (Jonas Kaufmann / René Pape / Peter Mattei / Katarina Dalayman / Evgeny Nikitin / Daniele Gatti / François Girard)
- 2013: Puccini – La fanciulla del West (Jonas Kaufmann / Nina Stemme / Tomasz Konieczny)
- 2013: Verdi – Don Carlo (Jonas Kaufmann / Anja Harteros / Matti Salminen / Thomas Hampson / Ekaterina Semenchuk)
- 2014: Puccini – Manon Lescaut (Jonas Kaufmann / Kristine Opolais)
- 2014: Verdi – La Forza del destino (Jonas Kaufmann / Anja Harteros)
- 2015: Mascagni – Cavalleria rusticana (Jonas Kaufmann / Liudmyla Monastyrska) & Leoncavallo – Pagliacci (Jonas Kaufmann / Maria Agresta)
- 2015: Giordano – Andrea Chenier (Jonas Kaufmann / Eva-Marie Westbroek)
- 2016: Opera Gala Baden Baden – Gala Summer (Jonas Kaufmann / Bryn Terfel)
- 2017: Verdi – Otello (Jonas Kaufmann / Maria Agresta / Claudio Sgura
- 2021: Korngold – Die Tote Stadt (Jonas Kaufmann/Marlis Petersen)
- 2024: Schumann and Brahms: Love Songs (Jonas Kaufmann/Diana Damrau/Helmut Deutsch)
Repertoire
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Kaufmann's repertoire includes the following:
ITALIAN
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| style="text-align:left;"| Bellini: Norma
| Flavio | Solothurn (1996) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
| Maurizio | Deutsche Oper Berlin (2010) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore
| Nemorino | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1995) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Giordano: Andrea Chenier
| Andrea Chenier | London, London, Royal Opera House (2015) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mascagni/Leoncavallo: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
| Turiddu/Canio | Salzburg, Großes Festspielhaus (2015) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana
|Turiddu | Napoli, Teatro San Carlo (2020) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea
| Nerone | Opernhaus Zürich (2005) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
| Telemaco | Opernhaus Zürich (2002) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
| Tito | Stadttheater Klagenfurt (1999) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mozart: Così fan tutte
| Ferrando | Teatro Piccolo Milano (1998, 1999) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mozart: Don Giovanni
| Don Ottavio | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1995) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mozart: Idomeneo
| Idomeneo | Staatstheater Kassel (2001) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mozart: Lo sposo deluso K. 430, Symphony No. 9 D. 944
| Pulchiero | Staatstheater Kassel (2001) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Paer: Leonora
| Florestano | Opernhaus Zürich (2000) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Paisiello: Nina
| Lindoro, Hirt | Opernhaus Zürich (2002) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Puccini: La bohème
| Rodolfo | Staatsoper Stuttgart (2004) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Puccini: La fanciulla del West
| Dick Johnson | Wiener Staatsoper (2013) Bayerische Staatsoper (2022) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Puccini: Turandot
| Calaf | Roma, Santa Cecilia, (2022) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Puccini: Manon Lescaut
| Des Grieux | London, Royal Opera House (2014) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Puccini: La rondine
| Ruggero | London, Royal Opera House (2004) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Puccini: Tosca
| Cavaradossi | London, Royal Opera House (2008, 2011) Teatro di San Carlo (2022) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
| Almaviva | Staatsoper Stuttgart (1999, 2000, 2001) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: Aida
| Radames | Roma, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (2015) Arena di Verona (2022) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: Don Carlo
| Don Carlo | Opernhaus Zürich (2007) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: Falstaff
| Fenton | Opernhaus Zürich (2005) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: La forza del destino
| Alvaro | Bayerische Staatsoper München (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: I masnadieri
| Carlo | Filderstadt, Herbstliche Musiktage (2005) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: Rigoletto
| Duca | Opernhaus Zürich (2005, 2007) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: Otello
| Cassio | Lyric Opera of Chicago (2001) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: Otello
| Otello | London, Royal Opera House (2017) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: La traviata
| Alfredo | Staatsoper Stuttgart (2000, 2005. 2006) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: La traviata
| Gastone | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1995) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: Il trovatore
| Manrico | Bayerische Staatsoper München (2013) |
FRENCH
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| style="text-align:left;"| Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
| Faust | Dresden, Musikfest (2002) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Bizet: Carmen
| Don José | London, Royal Opera House (2007) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Bizet: Carmen
| Remandado | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1994, 1996) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Gounod: Faust
| Faust | Opernhaus Zürich (2005) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Massenet: Manon
| Des Grieux | Lyric Opera of Chicago (2008) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Massenet: Werther
| Werther | Paris, Opéra Bastille (2010) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Thomas: Mignon
| Wilhelm | Toulouse, Capitole (2001) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Verdi: Don Carlos
| Don Carlos | Paris, Opéra Bastille (2017) |
GERMAN
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| style="text-align:left;"| Beethoven: Fidelio
| Florestan | Rheingau Musikfestival (2002) Grafenegg Festival (2022) Gastaad Festival (2022) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Beethoven: Fidelio
| Jaquino | Staatsoper Stuttgart (1998, 1999) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Berg: Wozzeck
| Andres | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1994, 1996) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Busoni: Doktor Faust
| Student | Salzburger Festspiele (1999) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Humperdinck: Die Königskinder
| Königssohn | Montpellier Corum (2005) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Korngold: Die tote Stadt
| Paul | Bayerische Staatsoper München (2019) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Loewe: Drei Wünsche
| Hassan | Bad Urach (1996) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Offenbach: Die beiden Blinden
| | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1996) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mozart: Die Entführung auf dem Serail
| Belmonte | Bruxelles, La Monnaie (1999) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
| Tamino | München, Prinzregententheater (1994) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Schönberg: Moses und Aron
| Jüngling | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1996) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Schubert: Fierrabras
| Fierrabras | Opernhaus Zürich (2002, 2005, 2006) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Schubert: Des Teufels Lustschloß
| Oswald | Jagdschloß Kranichstein (1997) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Schubring: Cyrano de Bergerac
| Christian de Neuvillette | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1995) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Strauss II: Eine Nacht in Venedig
| Caramello | Regensburg (1993, 1994) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
| Alfred | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1995) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
| Einstein | Semperoper Dresden (2018) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
| Gast | Bayerische Staatsoper München (2008, 2012) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
| Tanzmeister/Brighella | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1995) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
| Tenor/Bacchus | Salzburger Festspiele (2012) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Strauss: Capriccio
| Flamand | Teatro Regio Torino (2002) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
| Sänger | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (2009) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Smetana: Die Verkaufte Braut
| Hans | Oper Frankfurt (2006) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Lohengrin
| Lohengrin | Bayerische Staatsoper München (2009, 2013) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
| Walther von Stolzing | Edinburgh International Festival (2006) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Parsifal
| Parsifal | Opernhaus Zürich (2006) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Parsifal
| Vierter Knappe | Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1995) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Tannhäuser
| Walther | Opernhaus Zürich (2003) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2. Akt konzertant)
| Tristan | Boston Symphony Orchestra (2018) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
| Tristan | Bayerische Staatsoper (2021) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Die Walküre
| Siegmund | New York, Metropolitan Opera (2011) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Wagner: Die Walküre (1. Akt konzertant)
| Siegmund | New York, Metropolitan Opera (2011) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Weber: Der Freischütz
| Max | Edinburgh, Usher Hall (2004) |
ENGLISH
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| Britten: Peter Grimes
|Peter Grimes |Wiener Staatsoper (2022) Bayerische Staatsoper (2022) |
| Weber: Oberon
|Oberon |Londres Studio (2002) |
| style="text-align:left;"| Romberg: The Student Prince
| Prinz Karl France | Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele (1996, 1997) |
Awards
- 2007 Gramophone Award 2007, Strauss-Lieder, CD
- 2008 Grands prix internationaux du disque, Diapason d’or, Romantic Arias, CD
- 2008 Qobus/Classica: Le meilleur disque de 2008, Romantic Arias, CD
- 2009 Gramophone Award 2009, Madame Butterfly, CD
- 2009 Prix Caecilia 2009, Sehnsucht, CD
- 2009 Diapason d’or 2009, Romantic Arias, CD
- 2010 ECHO Klassik „Bester Sänger des Jahres“ for the recording Sehnsucht
- 2010 Orphée d’or „Wolfgang Wagner“ 2010, Sehnsucht, CD
- 2010 Diapason d’or 2010, Die schöne Müllerin, CD
- 2010 Diapason d’or 2010, Verismo Arias, CD
- 2011 Gramophone Award 2011, Verismo Arias, CD
- 2011 Diapason d’or 2011, Werther, DVD
- 2012 Medal for "besondere Verdienste um Bayern in einem Vereinten Europa"
- 2012 Gramophone Award 2012, Fidelio, CD
- 2013 International Opera Awards: Opera Magazine Readers Award
- 2013 International Opera Awards: The Male Singer of the Year Award
- 2013 Die Goldene Deutschland
- 2013 Bayerischer Kammersänger – awarded at the end of the performance of Il trovatore, 8 July 2013
- 2013 ECHO Klassik „Sänger des Jahres“ for the recording Kaufmann Wagner
- 2013 ECHO Klassik „Operneinspielung des Jahres“ (19. Jh.): Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev, Wagner: Die Walküre
- 2013 ECHO Klassik „Musik-DVD-Produktion des Jahres“: Robert Lepage/Deutsche Grammophon, Der Ring des Nibelungen
- 2013 Gramophone Award 2013, Wagner, CD
- 2014 Golden plate for the Verdi-Album awarded at the end of the Liederabends Winterreise in Graz am 4. April 2014
- 2014 ECHO Klassik „Solistische Einspielung des Jahres/Gesang“ (The Verdi Album)
- 2014 Gramophone Classical Music Award 2014 Solo Vocal (Schubert – Winterreise, Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch)
- 2014 Bambi for the category "Classical Music“
- 2015 International Opera Awards
- 2015 ECHO Klassik „Sänger des Jahres“ for the recording Du bist die Welt für mich
- 2015 Premio Puccini 2015
- 2016 "Service Cross" for the order of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- 2016 ECHO Klassik „Bestseller des Jahres“ for the Puccini-Album Nessun Dorma
- 2016 Jahrespreis for the recording of Aida (2015) at the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik
- 2017 ECHO Klassik „Bestseller des Jahres“ or the album Dolce Vita
- 2018 Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 2018 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 2019 Goldener Rathausmann der Stadt Wien
- 2020 Honorary Doctorate at the Royal College of Music, give by Prince Charles
- 2020 Opus Klassik, in the category "Classic without boarders" for his album Wien
- 2021 Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis – Special Media Prize
- 2021 Opus Klassik in the category "Opera Recording of the Year" for Otello
- 2022: Award of Professional title Austrian Kammersänger{{cite web|title=Wiener Staatsoper ehrt Young, Kaufmann und Terfel|periodical=Musik-heute.de|publisher=|url=http://www.musik-heute.de/23483/wiener-staatsoper-ehrt-young-kaufmann-und-terfel/|url-status=|format=|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=2022-01-28|language=|pages=|quote=}}{{cite web|title=Wiener Staatsoper: Ehrungen auf offener Bühne im Anschluss an »Peter Grimes« am 2. Februar 2022|periodical=Wiener-staatsoper.at|publisher=|url=https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/die-staatsoper/medien/detail/news/wiener-staatsoper-ehrungen-auf-offener-buehne-im-anschluss-an-peter-grimes-am-2-februar-2022/|url-status=|format=|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=2022-01-28|language=|pages=|quote=}}
- 2022: Opus Klassik in the category "Singer of the Year" for Liszt: Feudvoll und Leidvoll
- 2022: Bayerischer Verfassungsorden
- 2024: Chevalier (Knight) of France's Légion d'Honneur{{Cite web |last=CHANNEL |first=THE VIOLIN |date=2024-01-22 |title=Jonas Kaufmann Made a Knight of France's Légion d'Honneur |url=https://www.theviolinchannel.com/tenor-jonas-kaufmann-made-a-knight-of-frances-legion-dhonneur/ |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=World's Leading Classical Music Platform |language=en-US}}
Literature
- Thomas Voigt: Jonas Kaufmann: In Conversation With. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017, {{ISBN|978-1-4746-0427-7}}.
- Thomas Voigt and Christine Cerletti: Jonas Kaufmann: Eine Bilderreise. Stiftung Colla Parte Basel, 2019, {{ISBN|978-3-903269-75-0}}
References
Further reading
- {{cite news|last=Pasles|first=Chris|date=14 March 2011|title=Tenor puts best face forward|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51876679/jonas-kaufmann-pasles/|work=The Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles|page=28|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=22 May 2020}}
- {{cite news|last=Ashley|first=Tim|date=28 November 2002|title='l don't mind my sexy image'|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51877157/jonas-kaufmann-ashley/|work=The Guardian|location=London|page=46|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=22 May 2020}}
References
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External links
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- {{official website|http://www.jonaskaufmann.com}}
- [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Kaufmann-Jonas.htm Jonas Kaufmann] on bach-cantatas
- Marie d'Origny (26 April 2012). [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/apr/26/tenor-stage-interview-jonas-kaufmann/?pagination=false "The Tenor on Stage: An Interview with Jonas Kaufmann"]. The New York Review of Books (includes a video of his 1998 performance in Così fan tutte at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan)
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