Jonas Kaufmann - Cosi fan tutte - Un aura amorosa

Rising star Jonas Kaufmann in an early performance in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.

Milan 1998.

For a free English translation, please see the following:

http://operainenglish.blogspot.com/2011/08/unaura-amorosa-cosi-fan-tutte.html

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• opera
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• Kaufmann
• Cosi
• fan
• tutte
• Mozart
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• tenor
• aria

[mahsef]

His larynx is a little high here some times...now a days his larynx is never, ever high. That's why he can sing anything he wants. He is one of if not the greatest tenor of our time. It could have gone very wrong for him in Germany, where all teachers think you have to sing like a little girl. They don't know how to train a large high voice. Luckily he found a teacher who knew and his own way...If all young talented singers were this determined the opera world would be very different today

[jarredfrey22]

@GERMANYFrankie

If he's one of the worst singers on the opera market, then why has he landed (and is still continuing to land) incredible leading roles with The Metropolitan Opera??? And not just there, but internationally as well! As far as his "beautiful natural" voice goes, it's called growing older!

[KaleidoscopeAct]

Such an amazing lesson-a great singing voice is mainly about technique. Caruso, Del Monaco, Corelli and now Kaufman all had mediocre voices until they found the perfect technique for themselves. What a wonderfully encouraging lesson for all singers!!!

[corzoidor]

Lovely version

[cardangel16]

@jarredfrey22

Are you fucking for real?

[eurydike]

@mayoyo25 different , but that is even better than only imitate:). perfect? maybe.

[eurydike]

@musicmuse56 i am not an expert, but i like his singing very much and cant understand how some people can criticize him so much. seems to me to be one of the best today.

[musicmuse56]

@mayoyo25 I'm a nineteenth-century opera specialist, and I completely agree with. He's probably the best tenor of our time.

[eurydike]

when i am reading about him only shouting or singing aloud, no emotion or whatsoever.... i cant believe my eyes. he is so good at expressing emotions. and he can sing pianissimo like only few can:))))

[catbaddoc]

@Jaaakob No, I have not heard him sing Wagner, because I confess I don't like wagner. Maybe is just a matter of taste, but I don't like his voice. It is powerfull no doubt, but, to me at least, it does not transmit what other tenor voices (less strong than his) do. I believe that a piece like this one from cosi fan tutte should convey more emotion that this. But then, everyone perceives emotion differently. i wish I could hear him live. Sometimes recordings don't do credit to one's voice.

[mayoyo25]

i am not only a fan of his . . . i've all his recordings, i've heard him live, i've met him, and am a tenor myself, and let me be the one to tell you all that he is the world's greatest living tenor. say what you want about his voice (his tone, his technique, etc.) but he is the most successful tenor, now, for a reason. and his rep is absolutely astonishing. since when has there been a tenor who has actually performed the many differing works that he has? pure perfection. different, but perfect.