Tenor superstar Jonas Kaufmann leads the cast in the first-ever Blu-Ray and DVD release of Konigskinder. The beautiful fairytale opera from the composer of Hänsel und Gretel.

The German tenor is “the fairytale prince of most opera-goers’ dreams – young, reckless, beautiful” (Financial Times), and Isabel Rey is the Goosegirl star in the acclaimed Zurich production of Humperdinck’s magical opera

HUMPERDINCK Konigskinder. Jonas Kaufmann, Isabel Rey, Oliver Widmer, Liliana Nikiteanu, Chorus & Orchestra of the Opernhaus Zurich / Ingo Metzmacher. Decca

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Königskinder – a story of love tested beyond endurance – premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1910. Humperdinck’s setting of the modern fairytale saw him further develop the musical language of his much-loved Hänsel und Gretel. Königskinder is enjoying a revival in popularity with productions planned in several major European houses

“Kaufmann’s humanity lies essentially in his singing, but in deportment he plays the part with a naturalness, an absence of stagey ‘attitude’, that is rare indeed . . . And his singing is surpassingly fine throughout. This is the Lohengrin voice of dreams: both romantic and heroic, with a gentle, well nourished warmth, capable of a perfectly graduated diminuendo to pianissimo . . .” – DVD review (Lohengrin) · Gramophone (London), September 2010