Jonas Kaufmann returns to Wagner stage with Lise Davidsen
mainBavarian State Opera is putting on the first act from Die Walküre next Thursday, with or without audience depending on Covid rules at the time.
The performance is conducted by Asher Fisch and sung by Jonas Kaufmann, Lise Davidsen and Georg Zeppenfeld. It will be streamed for free on the company’s website.
Luxury casting, Covid style.
Kaufmann and Davidsen have sung Fidelio together in London, pre-Covid.
It’s actually on Thursday 13 May, & just Act 1.
Stellar casting, indeed. So happy to be able to listen to two of the greatest Wagner singer of our times. Jonas Kaufmann is not bad either…
Seems you have to pay Euro 9.90 to watch it? As per this link
https://www.staatsoper.de/en/staatsopertv.html
Actually – it seems you *can* watch it free on 13 May only but from 15 May you have to pay Euro 9.90…….
pre-Covid. ????????????
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kaufmann suffered from COVID during Fidelio!
Keyboard problems?
“Kaufmann and Davidsen have sung Fidelio together in London, pre-Covid.”
Interesting use of “pre”, Norman. This was around the time the first wave was peaking in London.
I was at the Garden the last night before it closed down for Covid and the last time they sung together. Davidsen was the star of the evening as Tony Pappano said “ I don’t know why people are getting excited about Kauffman he doesn’t even sing till the second act!” Actually he was pretty good but it was a modern conceptual production which didn’t do him or us any favours!
sing, sang, sung
Let’s conjugate!
Alle the cast was sick with COVID. First to said it publicly was Amanda Forsythe – Slipped Disc wrote about it https://slippedisc.com/2020/07/the-times-covent-garden-made-me-sing-with-covid/
Can’t we find a new Wagner tenor other than Kaufmann? I would prefer an Italian. Wagner should be sung like belcanto.
Like Gigli?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZvSONwY1uA
An Italian Heldentenor? Good luck.
Maybe not really idiomatic but Del Monaco sounds better than anyone today. He’s having a lot of fun with Siegmund:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLty5qL1PKI&t=27s
He shouldn t.
When you see them together it s embarassing. She is very tall and he looks so little next to her.
Not speaking about voice but image.
He looks great next to Garanca. They both sounded and looked great in Parsifal
I hate to tell you millennials but opera is all about voices not looks.
Its both, since it is musical theatre. Wagner composed Parsifal as an opera not an oratorio.
We are all in for a feast of terrible singing
It was okay. Watch you tube complete performance from La Scala with Domingo, Meier and Muti. Outstanding.