Jonas Kaufmann - Puccini: Love Affairs
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Jonas Kaufmann - Puccini: Love Affairs
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), with Pretty Yende (sop), Anna Netrebko (sop), Sonya Yoncheva (sop), Malin Byström (sop) / Orchestra del Teatro Comunale
[ Sony / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 13 September 2024
Following on from his phenomenally successful Grammy-nominated first Puccini album in 2015, "Nessun Dorma", Jonas Kaufmann now presents a new album of Puccini highlights to mark the composer's anniversary year 2024.
"The greatest tenor of his generation" (The Guardian) has selected for his new recording six great duets and scenes with six outstanding sopranos - legendary love scenes, emotionally-charged Love Affairs.
He is joined by sopranos Anna Netrebko (in Manon Lescaut), Asmik Grigorian (in Il Tabarro), Malin Byström (in La Fanciulla del West), Maria Agresta (in Madama Butterfly), Pretty Yende (in La Bohème) and Sonya Yoncheva (in Tosca).
Two famous tenor arias "E lucevan le stelle" (Tosca) and "Che gelida manina!" (La Bohème) complete the attractive programme, with Asher Fisch conducting the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
The album is presented in limited edition deluxe packaging, including printed interview with Jonas Kaufmann, full lyrics, photos and many of the original Ricordi opera posters.
"Sensitive to every inflexion in the texts, Kaufmann's voice is steady and always dramatically engaged, though it's often an easier voice to enjoy when he's lowering the decibels and not navigating the upward plunge into his top range...Asmik Grigorian and Maria Agresta prove particularly characterful in Il tabarro and Madama Butterfly." Times
"His easy star power enlivens Cavaradossi's suavity and Dick Johnson's rugged, weary machismo...Best of all: Asmik Grigorian's haunted Giorgetta, in an excerpt from Il Tabarro, which draws a fatalistic ardor out of Kaufmann that might surprise listeners. No trepidation required." New York Times
Tracks:
La Bohème, Act I: "O soave fanciulla"
Manon Lescaut, Act II: "Tu, tu, amore? Tu?"
Tosca, Act I: "Mario!" - "Son qui!"
Tosca, Act I: "Ah, quegli occhi!" - "Qual occhio al mondo"
La Fanciulla del West, Act I: "Mister Johnson, siete rimasto indietro"
La Fanciulla del West, Act I: "Quello che tacete"
Il Tabarro, Act I: "O Luigi! Luigi!"
Madama Butterfly, Act I: "Viene la sera"
Madama Butterfly, Act I: "Bimba dagli occhi"
Madama Butterfly, Act I: "Vogliatemi bene"
Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)
E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)
