Jonas Kaufmann by Thomas Voigt - ISBN: 9781474606325
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Jonas Kaufmann

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    12 March 2019

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Summary

JONAS KAUFMANN is a German operatic tenor, best known for his performances in spinto roles such as Don Jose in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, and the title role in Don Carlos. He has also sung leading tenor roles in the operas of Richard Wagner with success in Germany and abroad, most notably the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He is also an accomplished Lieder singer. In 2014 The New York Times<…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474606325
ISBN-10:1474606326
Author:Thomas Voigt
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:12 March 2019
Weight:271g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 28mm
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Critics Review

revealing biography– Limelight

Mr Voigt’s journalistic credentials are impeccable … Mr Kaufmann goes into detail on the physical demands of his art; he speaks eloquently on the fear to which all singers are prone * The Economist *

About The Author

Thomas Voigt

Thomas Voigt is a freelance writer, journalist, filmmaker and vocal coach, born in 1960 in Hagen, Germany. From 1992 to 1996 he edited Opernwelt (Opera World) and from 1998 to 2003 was editor-in-chief of Fono Forum. He has published biographies of Martha Modl, Inge Borkh and Edda Moser and made documentary films about Fritz Wunderlich, Lisa Della Casa, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Robert Stolz and Jonas Kaufmann. For his services to journalism he was awarded the Gottlob Frick Medal in Gold.

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