Bavarian State Department Award

Munich, September 30, 2022. During a ceremony at the Maximilianeum, the President of the Bavarian State Parliament, Ilse Aigner, awarded the Bayerischer Verfassungsorden to Jonas Kaufmann. In her laudatory speech for the artist, Ilse Aigner said: “Your voice gets under the skin. For many years you have been one of the top stars of the opera world, enchanting music lovers in countries all over the world with your singing and stage presence. You have been successful in Milan, Zurich, at the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra national de Paris, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

in London and at the Salzburg Festival. However, your name is inseparably linked with the Nationaltheater in Munich. Here, you have embodied numerous prominent roles. You are a true Bavarian. And as such, you make a great contribution to cultural life in the Freistaat. You have shaped the profile of the Bavarian State Opera for many years. You are a musically accomplished as well as a charming artistic ambassador of Bavaria all over the world.”

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“This fast-paced narrative with its realistic dialogue between characters and its emotional arch almost gives one the impression that Giordano would have liked to make a feature film, yet did not yet have the necessary technology at his disposal. In fact, at the same time as this opera was being written and premiered, film was also being born." With these words, director Philipp Stölzl also described an essential aspect of his production of Giordano's Andrea Chenier at the Bavarian State Opera: the stage is presented as a "split screen" that simultaneously shows the "upper and lower" social classes during the French Revolution. This December 2017 revival of the production, conducted by Marco Armiliato, was recorded and recently released on DVD and Blu-ray on the Bavarian State Opera’s record label. "Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros and George Petean shine in an imaginative yet faithful production by Philipp Stölzl. The then 78-year-old Brian Large proves once again that he is the best of all classical music videomakers." (Merker online)

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