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Jonas Kaufmann’s hefty yet smooth-textured voice is very different from the Italian tenors with their bright timbre and high squillo tones. It’s a comparatively mellow
Director Richard Jones has brought a one-dimensional concept to Munich’s new Lohengrin, recorded in July, 2009. Just as his dark, joyless Hänsel und Gretel at
This terrifically-cast and conducted Carmen goes to the top of the list, which is saying a great deal given the quality of the competition: Julia
There are 69 complete recordings of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly currently available. The title role has been recorded by such illustrious–and vocally and stylistically different–sopranos as
There seems to be a new and very welcome breed of tenor emerging. Even more-so than their grand-voiced predecessors (say, The Three Tenors), singers like
Recordings of Richard Strauss’ songs sung by tenor are relatively rare, and this one, with 28 selections, is a fine addition to the catalog. Jonas
This exciting and accomplished performance of Beethoven’s Ninth conclusively proves that neither Roger Norrington nor that pathetically scrappy pick-up orchestra gathered together under the deceptively
