| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 6-Apr-2013 Konzerthaus: Großer Saal | Jonas Kaufmann's Die Winterreise at the Wiener Konzerthaus |
 Those who attended Jonas Kaufmann’s Vienna Wagner debut and were wondering why his Parsifal was beautiful but rather underwhelming in volume, were given the answer on the stage of the Konzerthaus two days later, when he announced himself as “still ill after a severe cold”.Read full review... | |
| 15-Feb-2013 Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House | The music redeems unanswered questions in the Met's beautiful new Parsifal |
 Before the music in the Metropolitan Opera’s new Parsifal starts, a black but reflective curtain drapes the front of the stage. It is dim enough not quite to show the audience, but it picks out the chandeliers. As Daniele Gatti coaxes the orchestra through the opening lines of the score the tableau becomes translucent, first seeming to mirror the front rows of the stalls, but slowly revealing the chorus, sitting in rows. Parsifal stands, in the centre, chosen. The men slowly remove their workaday suits, socks, and shoes, while the women turn.Read full review... | |
| 20-Jan-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Jonas Kaufmann sings Die schöne Müllerin in Montréal |
 Outside Montréal’s Maison Symphonique thunder bellowed above a raging snowstorm, while inside the hall Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch helped transport the audience to warmer climes. These two performers, with the aid of Franz Schubert’s music and Wilhelm Müller’s poetry, transformed the concert hall into idyllic and pastoral Germany, where a wanderer follows the whim of a lazy brooklet through heath, meadow and forest with only his lute for a companion.
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| 21-Dec-2012 La Scala | A dream cast united in La Scala's Lohengrin |
 The first opera of the season at La Scala is an event of huge cultural significance in Italy, so it raised some hackles when, for Giuseppe Verdi’s centenary year, the management passed over Verdi in favour of Wagner’s Lohengrin. But even Italians disappointed by the insult to their culture found it impossible to quarrel with the quality of the singing talent on show.Read full review... | |
