Renee Fleming & Jonas Kaufmann Classical Concert

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Renee Fleming & Jonas Kaufmann Classical Concert

Stars: Renee Fleming, Jonas Kaufmann
Renee Fleming was nominated for two Grammy Awards in the Classical Field, both for her recent album "HOMAGE: The Age of the Diva".

America's Beautiful Voice", soprano Renee Fleming has a devoted international following wherever she appears, whether on the operatic stage, in concert or recital, on television, radio or on disc. 1999 brought a Grammy Award for her Decca recording, The Beautiful Voice which follows honors from Musical America (1997 Vocalist of the Year) and L'Academie du Disque Lyrique (1996, inaugural Solti Prize). Renée Fleming has been an exclusive recording artist with Decca since 1995. Sir Georg Solti, who conducted Renée Fleming's first solo aria recording for Decca, described the impact of her singing; "Quite apart from the sheer lyrical beauty of voice, she has an innate musicianship which makes every performance a great joy."

Renee Fleming's career has been built on success across a wide range of musical styles and this unparalleled diversity of excellence is reflected in her Decca recordings. Her recent releases illustrate perfectly just how varied are the roles and music that she likes to perform. The recording of one of her signature roles, Rusalka, made with Ben Heppner and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras was released in Autumn 1998 to great international acclaim. Rusalka won awards such as two Gramophone Awards (as

'Record of the Year' and best 'Opera'), the Edison Award (Netherlands) and the Caecilia Award (Belgium)." Her other autumn 1998 release was "I Want Magic". This album, recorded in New York with James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, is a magnificent collection of American arias from, amongst others, Bernstein's Candide, Previn's new Opera A Streetcar Named Desire and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. For Fleming, this was very much the music that she loved as a child and music which made her want to be a singer. Gramophone chose the disc as Record of the Month and said "Fleming's voice is sumptuous...she's surely destined to be one of the greats". Repértoire hailed her project as "The most beautiful manifesto imaginable for the last fifty years of American operatic creation."

Jonas Kaufmann
Jonas Kaufmann completed his musical studies in his native Munich and also participated in master classes with James King, Hans Hotter, and Josef Metternich.

He began his professional career at Staatstheater Saarbruecken in 1994 and was soon invited to make debuts in important German theaters, such as the Stuttgart Opera and Hamburg State Opera, as well as international debuts at the Chicago Lyric Opera, Paris Opera, and La Scala. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1999 in a new production of Busoni's Doktor Faust and returned there in 2003 as Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail and for concerts of the Beethoven's Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic.

He has performed in Covent Garden in 2006/2007 in the role of Don Jose in Bizet's Carmen to critical acclaim, and also sang Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and in Covent Garden in 2008. In May 2008, Kaufmann made his role debut as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca in Covent Garden, again to critical acclaim.

Children under 1.2m (except performances for children) are NOT allowed to enter NCPA.

Ticket booking hot line:
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Time: 2008/8/16 19:30
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts ---Concer Hall
Price: 180/380/580/780/980/1280

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