Jonas Kaufmann - Nessun Dorma - The Puccini Album (2015)

Described by The Daily Telegraph as “The world’s greatest tenor”, Jonas Kaufmann dedicates his new album to the most popular Italian opera composer of all time, Giacomo Puccini. Featuring the most loved aria of all time, ‘Nessun Dorma’, alongside stunning pieces from Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca and more. Together with Jonas Kaufmann, this album includes celebrated Royal Opera House conductor Antonio Pappano and his renowned orchestra and choir of the Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia.

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Performer: Jonas Kaufmann, Kristine Opolais
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Orchestra/Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra

After years of singing Giacomo Puccini’s heroes on stage to vast critical and audience acclaim, “the world’s greatest tenor”(The Daily Telegraph), Jonas Kaufmann, finally records an album entirely devoted to the world’s most-loved opera composer. The new album, Nessun dorma is a selection of Puccini’s stupendous tenor arias drawn from his greatest opera’s including Tosca, Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly and La fanciulla del West. Spanning the breadth of Puccini’s output from the early operas Le Villi and Edgar, the album culminates in the mighty aria “Nessun dorma” from his final opera Turandot. Jonas Kaufmann is joined on this album by Maestro Antonio Pappano, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and soprano Kristine Opolais.

Munich-born singer, Jonas Kaufmann, is without a doubt at the absolute top echelon of the operatic world. He is in extreme demand with the world’s most influential conductors, selling out opera houses and concert venues months in advance wherever he performs. In 2011, he received the Opera News Award in New York and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. He has been awarded “Singer of the Year” by many prestigious journals including ECHO Klassic and Musical America. Kaufmann is also an internationally sought-after concert and lieder singer. In October of 2011 he performed the first solo recital to be given at the Metropolitan Opera since Luciano Pavarotti in 1994.

Tracklist:

01. Manon Lescaut, Atto I: (2:28)
02. Manon Lescaut, Atto II: (7:45)
03. Manon Lescaut, Atto II: (2:42)
04. Manon Lescaut, Atto III: (3:37)
05. Le Villi, Atto II: (7:27)
06. Edgar, Atto II: (5:12)
07. La Boheme Atto I: (4:14)
08. Tosca, Atto I: (2:55)
09. Madama Butterfly, Atto III: (1:52)
10. La Fanciulla del West, Atto II: (3:30)
11. La Fanciulla del West, Atto III: (4:39)
12. La Rondine, Atto I: (2:59)
13. Il Tabarro: (2:32)
14. Gianni Schicchi: (2:58)
15. Turandot, Atto I: (2:41)
16. Turandot, Atto III: (3:09)