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Deutsch-Wagram near Vienna, September 5, 2025: At the Marchfelderhof, Jonas Kaufmann received the Golden Johann Strauss Award, an honor bestowed by the Johann Strauss Society Vienna, which had previously been awarded to Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Renate Holm, and Otto Schenk.
Numerous celebrities offered their congratulations, including entrepreneur Hans Peter Haselsteiner, festival president Helga Rabl-Stadler, Tyrol's governor Anton Mattle, soprano Birgit Sarata, and bass Kurt Rydl. Peter Grossmann, head of the Marchfelderhof, also unveiled a marble plaque in honor of Jonas Kaufmann.

On Sunday, 7 September, in Vienna's Burggarten: the Vienna State Opera's ‘Opern Air Concert’, a special event with, among others, Elīna Garanča, Sonya Yoncheva, Jonas Kaufmann, Benjamin Bernheim and Boris Pinkhasanovich, as well as the choir and orchestra of the Vienna State Opera conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Admission is free. Those who cannot attend in person will have the opportunity to watch the concert via live stream at play.wiener-staatsoper.at at 7 p.m. It will also be broadcast on ORF III at 8:15 p.m. Afterwards, it will be available to watch on ORF.ON for three months. From 18 September, the complete concert will be available on arte.tv for around a year. A slightly abridged version will be broadcast on ARTE on 12 October.

Today at 7pm: from the Nationaltheater in Munich BR-KLASSIK broadcasts the double premiere of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci live on the radio. As recently at the Vienna State Opera, Jonas Kaufmann will once again be heard in the role of Canio. The singer spoke to Sylvia Schreiber about the new production of the Verismo twins and his role in an interview for BR-Klassik. Photo: Geoffroy Schied

“A great evening at the Vienna State Opera” was the headline in the ‘Merker’: ‘Cavalleria rusticana’ with Elīna Garanča and Jonathan Tetelman as well as ‘I Pagliacci’ with Jonas Kaufmann and Maria Agresta drew rave reviews. On Sunday, February 9, the recording of the Verismo twins will be broadcast on ORF III / Erlebnis Bühne at 8 pm. At the beginning of the program, the protagonists will be interviewed by Barbara Rett.
Photo: Michael Pöhn

Due to a strike, the concert in honor of Giacomo Puccini, which took place on November 29, 2024, on the 100th anniversary of the composer's death at La Scala in Milan, had to be performed without an orchestra. Instead of the original program Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Mariangela Sicilia, accompanied by James Vaughan at the piano, presented highlights from “Manon Lescaut”, “La Bohème”, “Tosca” and “Turandot”, among others. The concert will be shown on ARTE concert on December 29 at 5:10pm and will be available on the media library for some time afterwards.

Famous hits from 80 years of film history: when Jonas Kaufmann presented his “Sound of Movies” program in the Smetana Hall in Prague in February 2024, a camera team was there. The recording of this concert can be seen on ARTE concert from 5:20pm on December 8th, the 2nd Sunday in Advent. The program ranges from works from the early days of sound film to musical adaptations such as “West Side Story” and hits by Nino Rota, John Williams and Hans Zimmer. For more information, follow the link to the ARTE site.

On November 29, 2024, the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini's death, La Scala Milan will present a concert in honor of the great composer, with Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Riccardo Chailly conducting choir & orchestra of La Scala. The concert will be broadcast live on Arte Concert from 20:00. The photo shows Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann after the recording of “Tu, tu, amore tu” for the album “Puccini. Love Affairs”.

Dear friends,
for family reasons, I am forced to cancel my participation in the production of Verdi's "La forza del Destino", which will open the Teatro alla Scala's 2024/25 season on December 7th. I have already had the privilege of attending this extraordinary Italian cultural event several times, so I am all the more sorry to miss this special event, and to disappoint the audience and my colleagues this time. Nevertheless, I hope for your understanding - especially in a country where family is still very important.
Jonas Kaufmann

As part of “Opera for All” the Bavarian State Opera will be broadcasting the performance of Puccini's Tosca on Saturday, July 27 from 7 pm, with Eleonora Buratto, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier in the leading roles and the Bavarian State Orchestra conducted by Andrea Battistoni. The production is by Kornél Mundruczó. Here is the link to the live stream on Staatsoper.tv
Photo: Wilfried Hösl