Jonas Kaufmann
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0281 |
| Birthday | 1969-07-10 |
| Place of Birth | München, Germany |
| Also Known As |
2022
The Legacy of Othello
8/1
A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604) — and lyrical...
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The Legacy of Othello
2015
Beethoven: Fidelio - Salzburg Festival
0/0
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Beethoven: Fidelio - Salzburg Festival
2013
Verdi - Don Carlo
0/0
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Verdi - Don Carlo
2014
Die Helene Fischer Show 2014
9/3
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Die Helene Fischer Show 2014
2021
Parsifal
0/0
The male circle of the Grail Knights is in crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the counter-realm of the sorcerer Klingsor, who had previously be...
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Parsifal
2007
Carmen
6.3/7
Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and Carmen in this darkly passionate reading of one of...
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Carmen
2009
Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier
9.5/2
Herbert Wernicke's production of Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier", filmed live at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 31 January 2009. Renée Fleming...
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Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier
2010
Adriana Lecouvreur
10/1
Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea s veris...
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Adriana Lecouvreur
2011
Royal Opera House: Tosca
9/2
The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel; the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestr...
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Royal Opera House: Tosca
2012
Lohengrin: Opera romantica in tre atti
8/1
The people of the Duchy of Brabant are divided by quarrels and political infighting; also, a devious hostile power left over from the region's pagan p...
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Lohengrin: Opera romantica in tre atti
2023
Jonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023
0/0
For the centenary of the Verona Opera Festival, Jonas Kaufmann gave a gala concert in the Arena on 20 August 2023. With colleagues Sonya Yoncheva and...
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Jonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023
2014
Casanova Variations
5.3/13
Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to visit,...
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Casanova Variations
2004
Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
0/0
Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conducted by Franz Welser-Most and featuring Peter Sieffe...
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Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
2023
Concierto de Nochevieja 2023 - Filarmónica de Berlín
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Concierto de Nochevieja 2023 - Filarmónica de Berlín
2012
Humperdinck - Königskinder
0/0
Engelbert Humperdinck's opera in an Opernhaus Zurich staging
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Humperdinck - Königskinder
2014
Bizet Carmen
0/0
Live recording from Oper Zurich, 2008, DVD release 2014. Jonas Kaufmann, 'the Prince of Tenors', appears with international star Vesselina Kasarova i...
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Bizet Carmen
2013
Verdi: Don Carlo
0/0
Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three versions of this opera, the French 186...
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Verdi: Don Carlo
2015
Puccini Manon Lescaut
10/1
The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.
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Puccini Manon Lescaut
2015
Jonas Kaufmann: An Evening with Puccini
0/0
In June 2015, superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann walked onto the stage of La Scala in Milan to perform a concert of Puccini arias. The concert made nation...
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Jonas Kaufmann: An Evening with Puccini
2024
Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier
0/0
At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revoluti...
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Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier
2014
Verdi La Forza del Destino
0/0
This performance of 2014 can be considered as a reference on account of the quality of the vocal material involved and because the daring staging of A...
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Verdi La Forza del Destino
2015
Meeting of the stars
0/0
An exceptional open air concert on Munich's King's Square gathers the stars of opera: Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Thomas Hampson alongside Elena...
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Meeting of the stars
2011
Netrebko, Schrott and Kaufmann in Munich
0/0
The opera trio performed to a crowd of 15,000 who were willing to pay ticket prices up to $500 for tickets. There was beer and champagne, as well as p...
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Netrebko, Schrott and Kaufmann in Munich
2013
The Girl of the Golden West
0/0
A celebrated new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West from the Vienna State opera featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Nina Stemme. Staged by Marco A...
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The Girl of the Golden West
2013
Parsifal
8/2
The Met assembled an ideal cast for François Girard’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s final masterpiece: Jonas Kaufmann in the title role of the...
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Parsifal
2013
Messiah
9/1
This is an exhilarating experience both visually and aurally. How wonderful that Barenboim is havng such success with Verdi this late in his career.Th...
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Messiah
2014
Manon Lescaut
10/1
In June 2014, London’s Royal Opera House presented Jonathan Kent’s new production of Manon Lescaut. With a stellar cast, including Kristīne Opolais an...
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Manon Lescaut
2009
Carmen
0/0
Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 .
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Carmen
2015
Carmen aux Chorégies d'Orange 2015
0/0
Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015.
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Carmen aux Chorégies d'Orange 2015
2009
Tosca
0/0
Live from the Zurich Opera House, 2009.
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Tosca
2011
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
9/1
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new M...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
2011
Gounod: Faust
0/0
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live in HD presentation of Des McAnuff’s thrilling 201...
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Gounod: Faust
2015
Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier
10/1
“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. His striking looks make him very much the Romantic a...
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Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier
2002
Paisiello Nina
0/0
The opera: Nina, o sia La Pazza Per Amore itself, is an extra-ordinary sad and touching story, and seems very difficult to be performed if the singer...
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Paisiello Nina
2016
Opera Gala - Live from Baden Baden
7/1
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Opera Gala - Live from Baden Baden
2014
Du Bist Die Welt Für Mich
0/0
The world’s greatest tenor presents an evening of melodies from a golden era and an engrossing documentary. Jonas dedicates an evening to the glorious...
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Du Bist Die Welt Für Mich
2017
Kaufmann's Otello at the Royal Opera House
7/2
On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recently acclaimed by The Daily Telegr...
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Kaufmann's Otello at the Royal Opera House
2010
Beethoven - Fidelio (Zurich 2004)
0/0
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is the conductor in this 2004 production of Beethoven's only opera staged at the Zurich Opera House. Finnish soprano Camilla Nyla...
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Beethoven - Fidelio (Zurich 2004)
2007
Fierrabras
0/0
Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and based on La Chanson de Roland and the legend of the l...
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Fierrabras
2017
Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos
0/0
Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisa...
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Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos
2010
Massenet: Werther
8.6/4
Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther s...
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Massenet: Werther
2015
Jonas Kaufmann: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
8/1
As comparably short operas, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are often billed together, but seldom is the lead tenor making his double role debut as...
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Jonas Kaufmann: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
2014
The Metropolitan Opera: Werther
0/0
Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings aching intensity and vocal charisma to the tortured title hero of Massenet’s Goethe adaptation. Sophie Koch, in her M...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Werther
2019
Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino
0/0
Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by Christof Loy. The Marquis of Calatrava forbids his...
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Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino
2009
Wagner - Lohengrin
0/0
Wagner's Lohengrin is the mythical tale of the mysterious Knight of the Grail, who appears to defend the princess Elsa - wrongly accused of the murder...
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Wagner - Lohengrin
2018
Verdi: Otello
0/0
Like an outcry the elemental force of the orchestra shatters the silence, the storm on the coast of Cyprus rages incessantly. The wind whips, lighteni...
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Verdi: Otello
2018
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West
0/0
Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufm...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West
2005
La Clemenza di Tito
0/0
This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It’s well paced, well played, well sung. Jonas Kaufmann is an...
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La Clemenza di Tito
2015
Jonas Kaufmann - Berlin 1930 - Das Konzert
0/0
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Jonas Kaufmann - Berlin 1930 - Das Konzert
2020
Royal Opera House: Fidelio
6/1
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann...
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Royal Opera House: Fidelio
2016
Jonas Kaufmann: Dolce Vita
8/1
JK's is definitely in love with Italy; not only is he fluent in Italian but he sings here traditional songs some of which are in the Napolitanean dial...
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Jonas Kaufmann: Dolce Vita
2012
Ariadne auf Naxos
0/0
Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Ariadne auf Naxos was filmed at t...
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Ariadne auf Naxos
2020
Jonas Kaufmann – Mein Wien
0/0
Jonas Kaufmann's very personal tribute to the city's famous music. We see the star tenor on the move in Vienna, visiting his favorite places, from the...
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Jonas Kaufmann – Mein Wien
2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
9/1
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unp...
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Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2017
Jonas Kaufmann: Tenor for the Ages
0/0
Intimate behind-the-scenes documentary about the handsome German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, one of the hottest properties in the opera world, and his trium...
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Jonas Kaufmann: Tenor for the Ages
2020
Jonas Kaufmann - A Global Star in Private
10/1
Opera star Jonas Kaufmann is known as the “King of Tenors”. This emotional and personal film reveals the man behind the star. Here he is chatting with...
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Jonas Kaufmann - A Global Star in Private
2020
Summer Night Concert: 2020
0/0
The Summer Night Concert was performed this year on September 18th 2020. It is an annual open-air event, which has been held since 2008. The previous...
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Summer Night Concert: 2020
2020
A riveder le stelle
0/0
"Lucia de Lammermoor" should actually have opened this year's season. But Corona prevents the title heroine from stabbing her bridegroom to death in h...
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A riveder le stelle
2013
Im Olymp der Kunst
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Im Olymp der Kunst
2021
Giuseppe Verdi: Aida
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Giuseppe Verdi: Aida
2019
Korngold: Die tote Stadt
0/0
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed by Simon Stone. Kirill Petrenko is conducting Jon...
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Korngold: Die tote Stadt
Diana Damrau & Jonas Kaufmann: Love Songs
0/0
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Diana Damrau & Jonas Kaufmann: Love Songs
2023
Giordano: Andrea Chénier
0/0
The revolutionary tribunal has sentenced Andrea Chénier to death and no one can avert his fate. Shortly before his execution, Chénier is visited by hi...
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
2024
Jonas Kaufmann, Les plus belles musiques de film
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Jonas Kaufmann, Les plus belles musiques de film
2024
Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
0/0
Singin' in the Rain, Strangers in the Night, What a Wonderful World: accompanied by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Jochen...
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Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
2019
Gala des Ambassadeurs Rolex
7/1
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Gala des Ambassadeurs Rolex
2025
Otello
0/0
In the imposing Wiener Staatsoper, experience the intense tragedy of Otello, played by Jonas Kaufmann, where jealousy and intrigue unleash a spiral of...
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Otello
2022
Concert du Nouvel An 2022 de la Philharmonie de Berlin
7/1
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Concert du Nouvel An 2022 de la Philharmonie de Berlin
2023
Turandot
0/0
Director Claus Guth heightens the surrealism of this initially extremely cruel fairy tale, which he prefers to see as a »parable«, into the grotesque....
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Turandot
2024
Tosca - Bayerische Staatsoper
0/0
For this new production at the Bayerische Staatsoper, stage director Kornél Mundruczó and conductor Andrea Battistoni don’t shy away from the violence...
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Tosca - Bayerische Staatsoper
2026
Ludovic
0/0
Ludovic Tézier is today one of the greatest baritones in the world. Behind this major voice of opera, both backstage and in everyday life, is a simple...
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Ludovic
2023
500 Jahre Bayerisches Staatsorchester
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500 Jahre Bayerisches Staatsorchester
2020
Met Stars: Jonas Kaufmann
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From pioneering radio broadcasts to high-definition transmissions in cinemas in more than 70 countries, the Met has always strived to use state-of-the...
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Met Stars: Jonas Kaufmann
Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Barenboim
0/0
A Verdi Requiem with a dream line-up of soloists and the forces of La Scala, Milan, directed by one of the greatest maestros of our time. Preceding a...
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Barenboim
2025
Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann
0/0
The Vienna State Opera celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Second Austrian Republic in the Burggarten gardens and offers a preview of the 2025–2026...
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Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann
2022
New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
0/0
Under the baton of Kirill Petrenko, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional New Year's Eve concert brings you an enchanting programme led by s...
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New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
2024
Ponchielli : La Gioconda @ Teatro San Carlo, Naples
0/0
With “La Gioconda,” Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886) composed a magnificent romantic melodrama that blends French opera and Verdi-esque drama. Fifty ye...
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