Since his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2006, Jonas Kaufmann has been one of the leading stars of the classical music world. Following engagements in Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Milan, Jonas Kaufmann joined the Zurich Opera in 2001. From there, his international career took off with appearances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Paris Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, the Deutsche Oper and the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, and at the festivals in Salzburg and Bayreuth.

Kaufmann is just as much in demand internationally for the Italian and French repertoire as he is for the German. He has sung Verdi’s *Otello* in London, Munich and Naples, Massenet’s *Werther* in Paris, Vienna and New York, and Wagner’s *Lohengrin* in Bayreuth, at La Scala, in Paris and Melbourne. Whether oratorios and operettas, Canzone Napoletana and Viennese Lieder – he has mastered the entire spectrum of the tenor repertoire and attaches great importance to a varied repertoire that keeps him flexible in every respect: vocally, musically, stylistically and linguistically.

Kaufmann describes art song as the “premier league of singing”, as this genre demands far greater precision and nuance than any other vocal discipline. His partnership with pianist Helmut Deutsch, with whom he has worked since his student days in Munich, has proved its worth both in the recording studio and in countless concerts, including on 30 October 2011 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. It was the first solo recital to be given at the Met since Luciano Pavarotti’s in 1994.

Since 2024, Kaufmann has also served as artistic director of the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Following his first season in Erl, the singer began 2025 with a revival of Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci at the Vienna State Opera, followed by an Asian tour featuring opera concerts and recitals, a recital tour with Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch (songs by Mahler and Strauss), the title role in Parsifal at the Erl Festival and a new production of I Pagliacci at the Bavarian State Opera.

At the start of the 2025/26 season, his latest album was released by Sony Classical: Doppelgänger features a CD with recordings of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and the Kerner Lieder with Helmut Deutsch, and a DVD containing the video recording of Schubert’s Schwanengesang, directed by Claus Guth at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Following performances in Puccini’s Tosca in Zurich and Paris, Kaufmann made his stage debut as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus at the Vienna State Opera at the turn of the year. In April and May, he will be on tour with his colleague Malin Byström and conductor Jochen Rieder, with concerts in Hamburg, Hanover, Essen, Munich, Nuremberg, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Lucerne, Vienna and Paris. In June, he will appear as Calaf in Turandot at the Bavarian State Opera.

Jonas Kaufmann is an exclusive artist with Sony Music. Many of his CDs and DVDs have won international awards such as the Gramophone Award. He has been voted ‘Singer of the Year’ on several occasions, including by the editorial teams of the specialist journal Opernwelt, the classical music magazines Diapason and Musical America, as well as by the juries of the International Opera Awards a6>and the Opus Klassik (formerly Echo Klassik). In 2013, he was appointed a Bavarian Kammersänger; in 2014 he received the Bambi in the Classical Music category, in 2015 the Premio Puccini, in 2016 the Federal Cross of Merit, in 2018 the Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. In 2022, he was appointed an Austrian Kammersänger, and in 2024 he was awarded the Ordre de la Légion d’honneur.

Jonas Kaufmann will perform the concert on 31 July 2026