STAGE TUBE: First Listen! Jonas Kaufman Sings 'Nessun Dorma' from the 'Real' Puccini Album

By: Sep. 04, 2015
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BroadwayWorld previously reported that Tenor Jonas Kaufmann warned fans not to buy the Puccini Album from Decca, uriging fans to wait until the "real" Puccini album is released with Sony on September 11.

On his Facebook page, he stated (translated in English):

Dear friends,
Please let you from the title of the decca-CD "Jonas Kaufmann-the age of puccini" not be fooled! This compilation only contains three puccini-Title: my recordings of " che govone manina " and " E Luce van le stelle " from the year 2007 and a scene from " la rondine ", The I 2008 for the verismo cd by Renée Fleming. In other 18 titles is my album "Verismo Arias" of 2010. So all well-known recordings in new packaging. The whole, it was without my knowledge and without my consent.
The " real " Puccini-album, the I with Antonio Pappano in the autumn of last year in Rome have included, bears the title " Nessun Dorma " in mid-September and is published by Sony. It contains exclusively scenes of Puccini-operas, including highlights from "Manon lescaut", "la bohéme", "Tosca", " La Butterfly Del West " and " turandot ".
-Jonas Kaufmann

Below, check out a first listen of Jonas Kaufmann's 'Nessun Dorma: The Puccini Album'!

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Jonas Kaufmann, German operatic tenor, is best known for his performances in spinto roles such as Don José 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 described Kaufmann as "a box-office draw, and... the most important, versatile tenor of his generation."



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