Bavaria’s highest honour goes to its premier tenor
mainThe tenor Jonas Kaufmann and the composer Jörg Widmann are to receive the Maximiliansorden, the highest cultural honour of the state of Bavaria, in a ceremony next Monday.
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This is rupturing of the highest of orderings! All will see the rupture of Maestro Kaufmann!
I cannot be waiting until he sings the great tenor roles of Gerard, Renato, and Iago! Then we shall all true say he is the Domingo of our timings and the rupture will be complete!
Should not confuse timbre with range: soprano can have a dark sound, bass can be silvery.
JK has sung and recorded Idomeneo, Belmonte, Ferrando, Tamino and Fierrabras, as well as the tenor parts in SATB scores like Mendelssohn’s Elias, the Mozart and Verdi requiems, Bruckner’s F-Minor Mass, and (though not recorded) Brahms’s Liebeslieder.
Whoopee
That’s what Kaufmann sang when opening the envelope.
Strange combination….. a great musician, and a Klangkünstler who keeps postwar Nachkriegsschuldbewältigungskunst alive, offering German audiences moral absolution for the sins of the fathers.
What an incredibly silly comment….. Mutter, Damrau, Gerhaher got it years ago. Nobody noticed it, but now bad comments are going on. Whats that ?