Jonas Kaufmann - La traviata Act 2 aria and cabaletta

[jaketaz]

Just type "kraus rimorso" in the search bar. It's better by MILES.

[AntW11]

Well, I take my hat off to Kaufmann for following the direction. Very professional.

[classicalgalNYC]

Kaufmann is sooooo HOT!!!!

[RodTenor]

The things singers have to put up with. Listen to him lose his note for having to contort and move : precisely at 00:48 sec, then the cabaletta is super slow and to end it all the guy has to sing his high C while back to the public... wow. I respect Kaufmann for his patience and understanding.

[Arbus2]

Maravillosa la voz, horrible la puesta en escena, casi parece una parodia.-

[Gunnifunz]

OMG! What an awful production. It makes you want to sing in concerts only! Also the tempo of the cabaletta is much too slow ... mind you ... just for my taste. And still. What Jonas is making of the situation... absolutely a miracle. I do hope his voice is not going to do what Villazon's did.

[ungiornodiregno]

It is quite hard to sing if you you are lying on your back, most directors are just clueless. But Kaufmann nevertheless sounds pressed if he stands on his feet. I am not quite sure if he had get the high C by standing still, but who knows.

[gestas60323]

one of the most awful euro trash productions! is Annina a female Gestapo officer?

[90lysander]

Some nights he is just remarkable ... this is one of those nights. The stage director should have let him stand still for that C.

[Desideria7]

I just wonder how long the stupid directors will rule in the big European opera houses bringing the opera to the level of the provincial German cabaret?!!

[timkendal]

Goodness me how i dislike the timbre of this voice. The vowels are all wrong - especially the "i" sound. The "e" could not be less italian below and above the stave. The "a" has a random blackness to it. Sorry, I know some love him, but not my cup of tea.

[mrjoe1955]

Absolute GARBAGE of a production, DUMB STUPID IDIOTIC REDICULOUS ASSININE PATHETIC productions like this should be outlawed! Does he even know what he is saying???

[jbrown91287]

@mrjoe1955 Im sure he does know what he is saying. As an opera singer myself, you dont always have a lot of say in what the director wants.

[mrjoe1955]

This is absolute GARBAGE. Does he know what he hell he is singing about?? Productions like this should be outlawed! Idiotic! assinine! pathetic! rediculous! dumb! stupid!

[thehix]

Wtf is this STUPID CRAPPY PRODUCTION ?? ..Kaufmann is great though :).

[corellithebest]

@thehix Totally agree! I am not een watching this, only listening to him singing!

[kgarmaker123]

I love Jonas.. fabulous voice, it is hard to believe he would sing that aria, repairing something or.. looking at a magazine.!

[turbofreddy]

Great voice, as always. Tough high c but that's live for you... This production sucks. How to ruin a composer in 6:22minutes...

[CatalinaDM56]

HAHA!

[kgarmaker123]

@turbofreddy Totally agreed, but Kaufmann is something else.. What a gorgeous voice, with or without a clean high c at the end.. the rest was so beautifully sung.. masculine big, voice.. give me goosebumps.

[bodiloto]

- 10 !!!! VERGOGNA  !!!

[otazay]

I guess my typing fingers had even more of a problem with this production than i did. Of course, I meant to spell it Kaufmann - and neither I, nor my fingers, have any problem with his performance. In fact, they (my fingers) have wicked thoughts of running through his hair...

[otazay]

I'm all for a fresh take on an old standard, but there's too much unrelated business going on that detracts from the musical intention. Pal Vinnie in his wifebeater, tinkering in the background, while Alfredo sings 'O mio rimorso' is beyond silly. Kinda liked Annina's trench coat, though ... Wonder what kKufamann really thought of the stage direction?

[belatrixlirica]

Espectacular

[percymartinez]

fabulous! hate the production....but it would be fun

[elotello]

Jonas Coffeeman voice is good thank god

[Altonahh10]

Paris is not a 3rd rate house, dunrob3. Come to Hamburg and see what we have here. Butterfly from 1963! What a bore!!

[dunrob3]

What a ridiculous production: typical of a 3rd rate opera house that wants to be talked about! Thank God the voices are good.

[corellilover]

I think this guy puts villazon into shame, for voice and looks

[Joncooke11]

Not 100% convinced by his final note, but the rest of his performance was practically flawless.

[OettingerCroat]

i agree, and i love the timbre of his voice...

by the way, i think he was goofing around too much at the end of this aria... that's why the C seemed like an afterthought. just listen to the "O mio rimorso" available on YouTube from Paris 2007, that high C is just ridiculous! :-)

[voce29]

I adore Kaufmann. But singing this aria coming out from a plastic chair is abolutely ridiculous.

[corellilover]

totally agree, he almost cracked that easy g at 0:48 just because of the effort of coming out from there, i can´t believe a star as kauffmann agreed to do that

[jackylen57]

J'adore sa voix ! Mais la mise en scène est pauvre

Merci

[mediglott]

Does anyone know if this Traviata production can be obtained in totality somewhere on DVD perhaps? Unfortunately, I missed its showing on France2 in December. I find Kaufmann's performance in all respect perfect.

[canio44]

que asco la puesta!!! por Dios a quien se le ocurrio eso????? pobre kauffman, tan bien que canta y tan aborrecible puesta, lamentable...

[girardje70]

Kaufmann est très bon ,pour la mise en scène

c'est ridicule et ça manque d'imagination et comme décors c'est horrible.

[titaruffo2]

A défaut de talent, les metteurs en scène ont une imagination délirante, proche de la démence

[adinamrnd]

I like the production though I think it is quite a difference to see it as video with this excellent picture direction than to see it on stage where details get lost. A friend from Paris who saw it live agreed to this. Im German and there are many more really disgusting or boring productions over here. This is only another way to tell the story and there is nothing disgusting with it.

[adinamrnd]

Rest of my comment

Sure, some things may be overdrawn to show the decadence of the society, but everything fits well together and is quite moving. Im almost 100 % sure that Jonas loved the production as well. He not only likes to sing, but loves to act as well and a conventional set gives him a lot less possibilities to show it.

(BTW there are some guys on Parterre who really need a hearing aid or are they mad because he prefers to sing in Europe?)

[voce29]

Kaufmann is of course wonderful, but otherwise the most ridiculous sets and direction