Jonas Kaufmann and Antonio Pappano - In conversation (The Royal Opera)

Antonio Pappano and Jonas Kaufmann discuss their collaborations at the Royal Opera House, looking at the most difficult tenor roles, career highlights and role debuts in 14 years of acclaimed performances on the Covent Garden stage.
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[@mercedesdenegri3098]

Lovely interview; you are so gifted Jonas, not only with your extraordinary voice and personality but your perfect command of many languages. Thank you Maestro Pappano for letting us know some more of the extraordinary work involved in order to perform such wonderful presentations

[@josefinamayorsanchez3454]

😅

[@jomurphy1654]

This is an artistic power-couple of epic proportions! Simply stunning to hear such intelligence and passion from both conductor and singer and then to witness such operatic genius from JK. There is finding oneself in the tennis-era of a once-in-a-lifetime Federer...and then being in the opera-era of a once-in-an-epoch Kaufmann - such sheer joy and privilege.

[@margeryarentsafir6994]

A true pleasure to hear a superb tenor discuss his roles with such intelligence, passion, and eloquence.

[@debbiekalivas3304]

So very wonderful to hear Antonio & Jonas describe these operas and experiences in such beautiful detail. It brought me a very special and important dimension of appreciation to experience their amazing expertise. So rare!

[@takekotoyama8147]

Wonderful conversation of two of my favorite musicians. i love color of Jonas' voice and artistic technique to express emotions. Bravi, Antonio Pappano and Jonas Kaufmann !!!

[@Вокальнаятехнологиядраматическ]

Капец, какой приятный человек в общении. Такая высота и такая простота! Красавчик!!!

[@arankaneumann-kd1iv]

Csodálatos tenor. és remek kedves intelligens ember! Köszönöm hogy van nekünk.🌹👍

[@barbaragawe170]

Hearing and looking at these two fantastic musicians and friends is wonderful! Long live for Jonas and sir Tony!!! thank you ROH for sharing!

[@chloejiheekim5132]

Please keep these coming! I love hearing Maestro Pappano

[@lisetremblayrenaud6867]

Merci ROH...! pour cette entrevue intéressante entre 2 grands de l'opéra. Jonas Kaufmann mon ténor préféré et le Maestro Antonio Pappano. Longue vie à vous 2, afin de nous charmer encore longtemps. Canada (Québec, Montréal)

[@lourdestorres177]

I love listening to these two greats of music. It is always so interesting to hear what they have to say. Jonas is my favourite tenor and I admire Tony Pappano very much. He’s a great maestro! Thank you for posting.

[@marciamcguire6501]

Marvelous Duet between you both ~! Jonas is my go to ! HIs Voice and Artistry. SUBLIME ! Thank you for this gift of an interview.

[@AlainWashnevsky]

Ich habe dieses Interview wahrlich genossen. Danke schön Lieber Jonas.

[@carinfoce9641]

This was wonderful, thank you so much! And the bambino in the background in the beginning made it so real. Thank you Maestri - you are my heroes!

[@Lilium-zi8yp]

Gracias Maestro Jonás Kaufmann .❤️🎵🎶🎼❤️

[@angelicastoican2556]

Thanks! Congratulations , wonderful!!..🎼👏👏👏🌹🌹💫

[@janetstockley4975]

My goodness how I enjoyed this interview. Jonas and indeed Tony love for their music and help us to understand the feelings that the opera is trying g to convey to us. What talented, clever musicians they are. Thank you so much for giving us this interview during this dreadful time for us all. Keep safe x

[@coragazmen7073]

So wonderful to hear both this 2 geniuses to talk about their love for music and to give us an understanding of what they do so beautifully.thank you so much. 5:00

[@queenslanddiva]

What a wonderful interview. Thank you so very much

[@liliacristinapohl4905]

Maravilloso Otello , Londres 2017 su más bella interpretación vocal y escenicamente ..👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💖🌹🌹🌹

[@ditaspaguia3434]

Enlightening interchange between 2 artists - love it

[@mymmandaba]

Thank you for sharing, ROH, sir Tony Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann 👍💐💖

[@theresenadeau7934]

Merci, quel privilège de vous écouter tous les deux. Entrevue tellement interessant

[@angelicastoican2556]

Art and its Beauty, can dominate any Regime and any Dogma!!..The great Artists and their Eternal Life!.. ART! 🎼👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹

[@patriciaquick6824]

Fascinating interview with great insights from 2 master performers 😍. I have no issue with any promo for the new Otello!

[@dinasucuarana4770]

Great! God bless you! ❤️❤️

[@oxana6055]

Какой молодец Кауфман что разговаривает свободно на нескольких языках и еще так великолепно поет. Дай бог ему здоровья чтобы мы могли долго наслаждаться его пением!

[@claudiadenardin7842]

Stimulating and enjoyable interview. I love Jonas Kaufmann, his talent, his wonderful voice, his sympathy and his extraordinary ability to speak different languages so well. Thank you maestro Pappano.

[@larapha2013]

Jonas is a wonder of our time, isn't he?

[@MerlinSpeaks]

Pappano is great, but I'm so grateful to live in a time when such a great artist as Kaufmann is in his prime. I have tickets to see him in October in New York, in the staging of Schwanengesang, but I don't expect those concerts to happen, so seeing this interview is a bit of compensation.

[@gmason9165]

Ah me too... refunded with hopes of seeing him again!

[@lynnegunn3478]

A wondrous duo

[@editamesones9990]

DOS GRANDES!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@peterlucevan314]

Thanks for doing this. Much appreciated.

[@ivanbaird5779]

Thank you for this wonderful interview and music - a well needed reminder of great nights out at Covent Garden.

[@operacat1]

Thank you, that was really interesting.

[@jetteharebjerre606]

Both top capacities💚👏

[@oxana6055]

Спасибо Йонас за то что вы такой талантливый и такой умный! Здоровья вам и всех благ! А мы будем слушать всегда!

[@kostas9216]

amazing interview from both sides.and mr pappano has absolutely right if you have amazing high notes its ok to holde them longer like corelli

[@김기생-g3o]

Thanks

[@williammountfield8508]

Jonas’ voice is just transcendental what more can one want in a tenor (except maybe Siegfried)

[@ifmusicbethefoodofloveegc986]

I agree with Kauffman that French is a more attractive language to sing than German or English. I would add that, in my opinion, Italian & Spanish are even more attractive.

[@larapha2013]

I am not with you. German has the strength. French easily comes to too flourish. Of course is an exception

[@gabriellarubio1386]

Wonderful 🖤

[@ΓεωργίαΧαϊδούλη]

Δεν γνωρίζω την γλώσσα ενημερωθηκα στο περίπου από την μετάφραση. Όμως χάρηκα τον ήρεμο τρόπο που μιλούσε, τις γνωστές εκφράσεις του, την τοποθέτηση της φωνής στον τόνο που έπρεπε και την τέλεια άρθρωση του(όχι την προφορά) με κελαρυστα τα υγρά σύμφωνα. Ικανός, αξιοθαυμαστος, πρωτυπο... Να είναι υγιής, ευτυχης!

[@RaisaBerbeci]

❤

[@szegedification]

Thank you so much for this amazing conversation.

[@ashleythorpe7933]

Pappano sounds like a tenor, too!

[@grr8048]

Ashley Thorpe I agree. I hear a very good italian tenor voice from him minus metal.

[@farmandghafari4663]

Genius ❤

[@lourdesleon2801]

❤❤❤

[@09lohengrin]

When was it recorded?

[@James_Bowie]

Great interview, but Jonas please don't bump the camera.

[@farkasagnes1974]

Két kedvencem !

[@mavavz]

Love being schooled ♥️👍🙏

[@aarondimoff5180]

Pappano thinking that nasal vowels add a nice resonance to the sound is the best example possible of why he's completely clueless about singing, and is the human embodiment of everything wrong with opera conductors today.

[@grr8048]

Aaron Dimoff darn harsh... but true...

[@aarondimoff5180]

@@grr8048 Conductors used to coach singers into sounding better in roles, and now singers must argue with conductors to avoid sounding worse.

[@celibidache1000]

I almost thought the comments were censored until I happily saw your comment. Kaufmann is so constricted and full of tensions that he's starting to sound like Kermit, even when speaking.

[@larapha2013]

Kauffman USES consonants, no matter how pappanos prefers vowels

[@chatbud]

Surprised to hear Kaufmann doesn't have that typical German accent when speaking English.

[@wkcty]

Could it be that he grew up using more than one language?

[@larapha2013]

Look at the "r". They very german. But he's got a good English

[@09lohengrin]

@@wkcty Italian was the other one he speaks from his childhood....

[@mangiafrani]

How about Turandot? Jonas would make a perfect Calaf.

[@larapha2013]

One of my Friends is critic to Jonas"r", that he can't avoid avoiding like Raus!. But I easily pardon him, He's got an interpretation that brings teras to my eyes

[@theogoldberg8919]

Maestro Pappano’s speaking voice sounds very much like Quentin Tarantino’s hahaha

[@fer-gius1189]

Francesco DEMURO è il meglio di tutti i tenori

[@oxana6055]

Жаль что нет субтитров на русском!

[@celibidache1000]

Doesn't anybody hear the horrible high B at 00:45? Is this normal now? No standards at all?

[@clarkepaul837]

SO TRUE......AMONG OTHER HORRORS....

[@marcellelecocq7328]

avec la traduction c'est mieux Jonas ! bisous !

[@KmwAmg]

The voice sounds like it is caught in the throat ! Pressed larynx which makes the sound strangled ! Every time I hear him at the Met ,I feel the sound does not come out into the Opera House . He sings with great feeling but the vocal production is all wrong !! I think he already knows what I am talking about ! AMG

[@kurtgarmaker3719]

I so disagree with you. His sound comes from a low larynx that's all.

[@vladimirsolodovnikov945]

Поет " широко " ,тупо...Такой голос далеко не полетит ...!

[@iloveopera1951]

Poor promo for their newest album which is an overall disappointment, to be polite... To have a succesful release you need to have a complete strong cast (not focus only on one singer, Otello) and then sadly Herr Kaufmann does not have the vocal strength nor the colors for Otello (as he was never a Radames in Aida...). This is sadly what happens also to other singers, performing unsuitable repertoire and then struggling to sing again. Out of Mr Kaufmann’s 10-14 year career as a star (very little in comparison to other fellow singers), he has already had an overall 2 year break or more, so it is really a pitty that this is what is considered today’s best... Wondering also how is this video supported by Rolex? It’s a recorded conversation with footage from his past performances after all, so what’s the support?

[@09lohengrin]

You are simly the only one with that opinion.... By th way: how do You know the recording? Its out tomorrow !!!!! Seems You do not have any idea about Otello except "trumpets". Poor man.................... Stay home and listen to del Monaco!

[@takekotoyama8147]

This comment is blasphemy to the best tenor of all time! which many consider including myself.

[@celibidache1000]

@@09lohengrin Well, he even cracks on the high B in the intro of this video...

[@raymondhummel5211]

Yes, indeed I agree that French is a beautiful language to sing it! Of course Jonas sings French lyrics with masterful skill. A truly disciplined performer.

[@aliciasarramida]

Wonderful conversation, thank you for sharing!

[@lynnegunn3478]

Exciting and wondrous duo

[@operaFan-tn8ng]

This is such a fantastic interview. It was Jonas Kaufmann singing "Donna Non Vidi Mai" which turned me into a devoted fan. Discovering his performance of the other roles was exhilerating. His Andrea Chenier is glorious - I am so looking forward to seeing him perform this again in London 2024. His Don Carlo is gorgeous, his Otello is magnificent. I was recommended by a wonderful opera director to research other versions of Othello - just for fun and interest. Jon Vickers is really great, Domingo is emotional but Jonas? Jonas is the greatest of all. His Esultate is, wow! He's got all the drama, vocal dexterity, strength and emotions of all the other voices contained in his single, wonderful, voice. I'd never seen The Force of Destiny before, but I was blown away by this version. I've since looked at other performances but I this the best version I've ever seen, and is so very moving. And, my God, his Florestan is so brilliant. Had me in tears. Bravo Jonas and Bravo Antonio Pappano

[@JavierBorja-bs1dd]

No. His Andrea Chenier is not glorious. I listene yo Kaufmann in Liceo (Barcelona) in Chenier. Sound ingolated, volumen very normal, and bad projection in acutes. I all acutes It was eclipsed by Sondra Radvanosky. Kaufmann does not plays in the same league that Corelli, Del Mónaco, or the young Domingo. In the 60' or 70' of the past century, Kaufmann could have bern only a mediocre tenor.

[@operaFan-tn8ng]

Well now look, it is a great pity that you do not enjoy or appreciate Jonas Kaufmann's voice. That is your perogative. I don't think it's necessary to insult him or compare him to past performers though. Surely there is room for other vocal sounds and other interpretations? Each voice is unique and each performance valid, even if it is not to our personal taste. I did get to see/hear him - and Sondra Radvanovsky - in Covent Garden in May. They were absolutely fantastic and in my opinion very well matched, vocally and dramatically. Jonas Kaufmann's voice soared out over the auditorium with no problems of volume. He certainly received many ovations by an appreciative audience. Jonas Kaufmann does not have an "ingolated sound." That is just a rude comment used by the ignorant who do not understand that a tenor voice can have baritonal elements to it which, in Jonas Kaufmann's case, just add strength and warmth of tone to his voice which can easily produce the top B flats and Cs that past tenor fans like you consider to be so important. How you can be so deaf and blind to the beauty, artistry and dramatic genius of Jonas Kaufmann, proved over and over again in his performances, is amazing to me. I can watch the performances of other tenors, both past and present, and appreciate their artistry and skills. I might not enjoy their singing or performance as much as Jonas Kaufmann's, but I don't think that's a reason to go and insult them all over KZbin.

[@David-pt8ge]

I know Kaufmann is a very good singer, but sometimes, the tell us why you are so wonderful interviewing style is a bit much.