Jonas Kaufmann

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Jonas Kaufmann (born 1969) is a tenor born in Munich, Germany. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland and is married with 3 children. His wife is also an opera singer.

His debut recording with Decca, Romantic Arias, was released on 7th January 2008.

Jonas Kaufmann completed his musical studies in his native Munich and also participated in masterclasses with James King, Hans Hotter and Josef Metternich. He began his professional career at Staatstheater Saarbruecken in 1994 and was soon invited to make debuts in important German theaters such as the Stuttgart Opera, Hamburg State Opera as well as international debuts at the Chicago Lyric Opera, Paris Opera and the Teatro alla Scala. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1999 in a new production of Busoni's Dr. Faust and returned there in 2003 as Belmonte and for concerts of the Beethoven's Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic.

He has performed in Covent Garden in 2006/2007 in the role of Jose in Carmen to critical acclaim and also sang Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and in Covent Garden in 2008. In May 2008 Jonas Kaufmann made his role debut as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca in Covent Garden, again to critical acclaim^[1].

In 2008/2009 he will perform Manon in Chicago opposte Natalie Dessay and will also return to the Bavarian State Opera in the title role of a new production of Lohengrin.