(Credit: Monika Ritterhaus) Sony Classical has announced Jonas Kaufmann’s next album, “DOPPELGÄNGER.” The new album will be a DVD and CD and will include Schumann’s Dichterliebe & Kerner-Lieder and six Bonus Tracks. The album was recorded with Kaufmann’s longtime collaborator, Helmut Deutsch. The physical edition will also include a DVD of the Park Avenue Armory performances of “DOPPELGÄNGER,” which were {…}
(Credit: Monika Ritterhaus) Jonas Kaufmann has been to New York over the past few years, mainly to do concert performances at Carnegie Hall. But the last time that the tenor was in New York to do a full-blown theatrical production was five years ago when he headlined a brief stint of performances of “La Fanciulla del West” at the Met {…}
Jonas Kaufmann will return to New York this September in the world premiere of “Doppelganger” at the Park Avenue Armory. The Armory Commission will reimagine Franz Schubert’s rarely staged song cycle “Schwanengesang” as a multi-dimensional theatrical performance directed by Claus Guth. Kaufmann will be joined by pianist Helmut Deutsch and both will break the conventions of traditional classical performance with an evocative soundscape composed {…}