“But the evening’s rarest pleasure was in hearing Jonas Kaufmann do what few of today’s tenors can do – finesse the sound and produce wonderful colour mixes around the passaggio to produce full bodied pianissimi, not some weedy falsetto which is so often masquerades as an excuse for mezza voce. He has it all: he looks dashing, he sounds dashing, and his abundant musicality puts him into an entirely ‘other’ league.
“His extraordinary diminuendo from the cry of ‘Morte!’ at Adriana’s passing was one such instance. How many tenors today would even attempt it?”–Edward Seckerson, blogs.independent.co.uk
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“The dashing, heroic-voiced Jonas Kaufmann is everybody’s favourite tenor at the moment and his command of the role of the much-lusted-after Maurizio is supreme, combining ringing top notes and wonderfully delicate half-tones.”–Barry Millington, thisislondon.co.uk
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Melanie Eskenazi, musicomh.com
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