3 concert with Jonas Kaufmann

• “Carmen” with Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kožená and Jonas Kaufmann

  

  Probably no other opera contains so many “hits” as Carmen. Yet despite its popularity, there is always something new to be discovered in the work – which is also the case in this 2012 performance from the Philharmonie. Here, Simon Rattle presents Carmen not as an overblown grand opera, but brings out the many nuances of the score, its lightness and refinement. The main roles are sung by Magdalena Kožená and Jonas Kaufmann.

  21 Apr 2012

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann

  • Georges Bizet
    Carmen, reconstruction of the original version by Fritz Oeser (concert performance)

    Magdalena Kožená Mezzo-Soprano (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann Tenor (Don José), Genia Kühmeier Soprano (Micaëla), Kostas Smoriginas Baritone (Escamillo), Christian van Horn Bass Bariton (Zuniga), Andrè Schuen Bass-Baritone (Moralès), Christina Landshamer Soprano (Frasquita), Rachel Frenkel Mezzo-Soprano (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt Tenor (Remendado), Simone del Salvio Bariton (Dancaïro), Children’s choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Vinzenz Weissenburger Chorus Master, Eberhard Friedrich Chorus Master

  • Carmen (video with English and German subtitles)

  • free

    Interview
    “Carmen” at the Berlin Philharmonie

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• Concert with Claudio Abbado to mark the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s death

  

  With this concert from 18 May 2011, the Berliner Philharmoniker commemorated the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s death. Claudio Abbado, with whom the orchestra gave many moving Mahler performances, conducted two works to mark the event which seem like elegiac meditations on the finiteness of all life: Das Lied von der Erde with Anne Sofie von Otter and Jonas Kaufmann as the soloists – and the Adagio from the Tenth Symphony.

  18 May 2011

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Claudio Abbado

  Anne Sofie von Otter, Jonas Kaufmann

  • Gustav Mahler
    Symphony No. 10 (performing version by Deryck Cooke): Adagio

  • Gustav Mahler
    Das Lied von der Erde

    Anne Sofie von Otter Mezzo-Soprano, Jonas Kaufmann Tenor

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• Claudio Abbado conducts Schubert, Brahms and Schoenberg

  

  In this concert from 2010, Claudio Abbado introduces the audience to some exquisite rarities. These include lieder by Franz Schubert in rarely heard orchestral arrangements, and Johannes Brahms’s cantata Rinaldo which gives us an idea of what an opera by this composer might have sounded like. The vocal soloists are young stars of the classical music scene: Christianne Stotijn and Jonas Kaufmann.

  16 May 2010

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Claudio Abbado

  Christianne Stotijn, Jonas Kaufmann

  • Franz Schubert
    Gretchen am Spinnrade, D 118 · Nacht und Träume, D 827 · Erlkönig, D 328

    Christianne Stotijn Mezzo-Soprano

  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Gurre-Lieder: Part 1 No. 11 Orchestral Prelude · No. 12 Lied der Waldtaube (Song of the Wood Dove)

    Christianne Stotijn Mezzo-Soprano

  • Johannes Brahms
    Rinaldo, cantata, op. 50

    Jonas Kaufmann Tenor, Herren des Rundfunkchors Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master, Herren des Chors des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Michael Alber Chorus Master

  • free

    Interview
    An introduction by Simon Halsey

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