Berlin loses out to Dresden for New Year’s Jonas Kaufmann
mainThe annual scuffle for year-end talent has closed with another victory for Dresden Staatskapelle over the Berlin Philharmonic.
The Staatskapelle Dresden and ZDF will be doing Fledermaus on December 29 and 30 with Jonas Kaufmann singing Eisenstein for the first time, Elisabeth Kulman as Prinz Orlofsky, Andreas Schager as Alfred and Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Rosalinde. Expent huge TV ratings.
Franz Welser-Möst conducts.
The Berlin Phil New Years Eve concert will be led by Daniel Barenboim, and has been on the schedule for some time. Check it out here:
https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/live
So just when did this “annual scuffle” occur?
And ratings competition? The Berlin New Years Concert has been carried on the Digital Concert Hall for the past several years, so they’re not really in competition with Dresden.
Pity Thielemann will be in Vienna conducting the New Year concerts at the same time. Welser-Möst is not for me.
Thielemann and Austrian operetta – no thank you.
Natürlich, the Berlin Philharmonic is not a German orchestra.
Hasn’t been since Furtwängler. Alright, ever since Karajan.
Just nonsense.
What a photo, Kaufmann’s pants zipper is at half-mast. Any singer’s nightmare.
Look again. It’s light reflection on the music stand.
Well, not ANY…
Time for a return to buttons!
Wise is the one who does not comment before actually looking really carefully. To paraphrase Ludwig Wittgenstein: of that which one cannot see, one must keep silent.
RWS sang well in Les vêpres siciliennes last week. Hopefully she will find the razor wit needed for Rosalinde.
There was never a competition over Kaufmann between those two parties for these concerts. So nobody could possibly lose or win over this anyway. The headline is pointless.
Do we have any evidence whatsoever that Berlin actually pursued Kaufmann for this concert?
First Eisenstein, eh? Expect a Luna before too long…
Eisenstein is a tenor-role! Althoug some famous baritones sang it. You should do your research.
I don’t rate this singer at all. Little heft.
Are you mad. It is not all about heft anyway. Have you heard him live? If you had I believe you would be very impressed by him. His voice is unique and completely overwhelming.