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Il Trovatore: A Song of Night, Fire and Vengeance

The Salzburg Festival plays Verdi’s Il Trovatore. A dark and flamboyant, complex and convoluted work being known to require the “four most beautiful voices in the world”. In order to complete this demanding challenge, the Salzburg Festival relies on Placido Domingo (il conte di Luna) and Anna Netrebko (Leonora), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Azucena) and Francesco Meli (Manrico). To coincide with the Salzburg’s production, we are getting back further in detail on this unlikely and brillant Trovatore,...

Published onthe 08 of August
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Jonas Kaufmann in the passionate love story ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Royal Opera House

Content provided by Rolex Partner, Jonas Kaufmann is considered one of the most versatile tenors of our time and is now adding another role to his repertoire as he debuts as Renato Des Grieux in Puccini’s ‘Manon Lescaut’. “This role is extremely beautiful and I think I will perform it a lot in the future. So this means the beginning of a great friendship and a passion for this opera,” Kaufmann explained. Plácido Domingo virtually...

Published onthe 11 of July
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Jonas Kaufmann recounts Manon Lescaut

At the age of 44, the great German tenor, today considered the greatest of his generation, has chosen to add a new role to his repertoire, that of Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. After Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca and Dick Jonhson in La Fanciulla del West, this is only his third Puccini role, even though his baritone-tinged tenor voice seems ideally made for this repertoire. Why did he wait so long? Perhaps just because he was never offered it. Or because he felt that, before...

Published onthe 17 of June
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Jonas Kaufmann recounts Werther

Often considered the most personal and sensitive of Massenet’s works, Werther – whose libretto is freely inspired by The Sufferings of the Young Werther, Goethe’s epistolary novel – stands as one of the landmarks of 19th century French Romanticism. A melancholy work imbued with a resolutely tragic aspect sometimes bordering on the morbid.  In both Massenet’s work and Goethe’s novel, the young poet Werther is madly in love with Charlotte – who...

Published onthe 19 of February
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La Traviata opens the new season at La Scala

The new production of Verdi’s La Traviata (which Stéphane Lissner had announced as a premiere) will be the main event for the end of this Verdi Year. There are several reasons for that. First, it is certainly one of Verdi’s most popular works, and perhaps in all of opera. Because of its libretto, of course, as melodramatic as one could wish. Also for its music, at once simple and effective, admirably constructed in its effects, theatrical in the finest sense of the...

Published onthe 27 of November
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Jonas Kaufmann recounts Don Carlo

This year, in commemoration of the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth, the Salzburg Festival presented this summer a new production of Don Carlo, directed by Peter Stein, provided with a impressive cast, and especially with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. We met him in Salzburg and he recounted us about his Don Carlo during a pleasant interview. See also Jonas Kaufmann in "Don Carlo’s sensational cast delights Salzburg audiences"...

Published onthe 13 of September
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Jonas Kaufmann recounts Lohengrin

On the occasion of the opening of the opera season 2012-2013, la Scala gives a new production of Lohengrin, opera by Richard Wagner, in a staging by Claus Guth and relying on an impressive cast : René Pape in the role of Heinrich der Vogler, Anja Harteros to embody Elsa, Evelyn Herlitzius lending his face to the character of Ortrud, and Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. And in the context of a long exclusive interview, the tenor presents the work, the way he approaches his role...

Published onthe 07 of December