JONAS KAUFMANN Verismo Arias

 

Riccardo ZANDONAI (1883-1944)

Giulietta e Romeo

1. Giulietta, son io

Umberto GIORDANO (1867-1948)

Andrea Chénier

2. Colpito qui m’avete…Un dì all’azzurro spazio (Improvviso)

3. Come un bel dì di maggio

Francesco CILEA (1866-1950)

L’Arlesiana

4. È la solita storia del pastore (Lamento di Federico)

Ruggero LEONCAVALLO (1857-1919)

La Bohème

5. Musette...Testa adorata

Pagliacci

6. Recitar...Vesti la giubba

Pietro MASCAGNI (1863-1945)

Cavalleria rusticana

7. Intanto, amici…Viva il vino spumeggiante (Brindisi)

8. Mamma! Mamma, quel vino è generoso

Arrigo BOITO (1842-1918)

Mefistofele

9. Dai campi, dai prati

10. Giunto sul passo estremo

Umberto GIORDANO

Fedora

11. Amor ti vieta

Francesco CILEA

Adriana Lecouvreur

12. L’anima ho stanca

13. La dolcissima effigie

Amilcare PONCHIELLI (1834-1886)

I Lituani

14. Sì, questa estrema grazia

La Gioconda

15. Cielo e mar!

Licinio REFICE (1883-1954)

16. Ombra di nube

Umberto GIORDANO

Andrea Chénier

17. Vicino a te

 

Jonas Kaufmann returns to the Italian verismo tradition to sing arias that define opera’s most passionate and vulnerable leading men.

 

Kaufmann’s international reputation is soaring as, going from strength to strength, he delivers consistently thrilling performances.

 

The onyx-dark beauty of his tone and the refinement and unexpected insights of his delivery mark Jonas Kaufmann a poet of tenors.

 

Timed for release when he makes his anticipated role debut as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur at Covent Garden opposite Angela Gheorghiu, this disc includes excerpts from the Cilea work that helped put Caruso on the map.

 

This album also entices with rarities from Zandonai’s dramatic Giulietta e Romeo and Puccini’s Le Villi.

 

Supporting Jonas Kaufmann is Italy’s leading symphonic orchestra, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, under its dynamic music director Antonio Pappano. Both maestro and orchestra are utterly at home in this repertoire.

 

Decca 4782258